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Niagara, Orleans, Genesee and Monroe. It is demonstrated that 

 the Orleans water supply project presents a most desirable op- 

 portunity of eliminating the hand-to-mouth water supply condi- 

 tions of that region and substituting a supply adequate alike in 

 quantity and in quality. 



Complete surveys have been made for the so-called Charlton 

 project, to supply water to Cohoes, Watervliet, Green Island and 

 Waterford; these municipalities having already formed a union 

 water district under chapter 233, Laws of 1913. 



Power Development on Navigable Streams 



The decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Chand- 

 ler-Dunbar case goes far toward clarifying the relations of the 

 public toward power development on navigable streams. We 

 recommend the enactment of a law patterned after chapter 264, 

 35 statutes, pages 815-820, of the Laws of the United States, and 

 providing that powers created or made possible by the construc- 

 tion of the Barge canal shall not be disposed of in any way with- 

 out the concurrence of this Commission after public notice and 

 hearing. 



The Commission has continued the surveying of streams in 

 order to ascertain the amount of developed and undeveloped water 

 powers, storage possibilities, etc. A survey of the Saranac river 

 has been made and will be prepared for publication during the 

 coming year. The results of the Oswegatchie power survey, 

 made in the summer of 1912, will appear in the complete report 

 of this division for the present year. 



Drainage Projects 



It is desirable that the drainage of the 100,000 acres of swamp 

 land in the State should go forward with the least possible de- 

 lay ; and the highest court of the State having now decided litiga- 

 tion, under the river improvement act, in a manner favorable to 

 the workability of drainage projects, this Commission proposes to 

 push this feature of its work with as great energy as funds will 

 permit. 



