42 Third Annual Report of the 



Supervision of Water Supply Needed 



Complaints in large number have been received with regard to 

 service rendered and quality of water supplied by water supply 

 corporations, and rates charged therefor. Many cases are alleged 

 where water is being supplied for domestic consumption which is 

 so impure as to be entirely unfit. This State should follow the 

 example of other States, by exercising supervision over all such 

 matters to the extent that other public service corporations are 

 regulated. State authorities should be able to forbid the supply- 

 ing of contaminated water to any public distribution system in 

 order to protect the health of the community. 



All sewerage and drainage projects, plans for which must re- 

 ceive the approval of any State Commission or department, must 

 also be approved by this Commission. During the past year 

 ninety-nine such applications have come before this Commission 

 for action, all of which we approved. 



Hyprographic Investigations 



During the fiscal year the making of measurements of rainfall 

 and stream flow and the recording thereof has been continued in 

 cooperation with the United States Geological Survey. 



The work has been somewhat extended and some new stations 

 added, and the service generally somewhat improved, while the 

 cost has remained the same, namely, $10,000 per annum. 



These records are more and more useful as time goes on by rea- 

 son of the greater period of time covered thereby, due to which 

 more minimum and maximum rainfall and stream flow conditions 

 are covered and averages obtained over longer periods of time. 



The importance of the records to those interested in hydraulic 

 and hydro-electric subjects is yearly increasing, and the usefulness 

 of the work fully warrants its very moderate cost. 



LEGAL BUREAU 



The work of this bureau consists of the examination and 

 preparation of all cases for violations of the Conservation Law in 

 relation to fish, game, lands and forests, and actions in eject- 

 ment to recover the possession of property owneH by the 



