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D3432001.Pdf The entire Comprehensive Plan can be accessed using the Table of Contents which follows this cover page. The hot spots on the Table of Contents will take you to the page in this document or to a separate document. The Water Code of the Basin and the list of Dockets which are in the Comprehensive Plan are separate documents because of their size. Compilation of DRBC Comprehensive Plan Table of Contents Section I. Introduction, General Basin Characteristics, and Policies. A. Introduction 1. Codification of Comprehensive Plan 2. Authority 3. Purpose 4. Scope B. General Basin Characteristics C. Policies: Delaware River Basin Water Code (Download File - 592 KB) 1. General Delaware River Basin Policies 2. Conservation, Development, and Utilization of Delaware River Water Resources 3. Water Quality Standards for the Delaware River Basin Section II. Projects A. Proposed Reservoir Projects – Pursuant to Resolution No. 62-4 1. F.E. Walter Modification 2. Prompton Modification 3. Tocks Island B. Existing Reservoir Projects – Pursuant to Resolution No. 62-4 1. Cannonsville Reservoir 2. Beltzville 3. Blue Marsh 4. Tohickon 5. Brandywine 6. Little Schuylkill 7. Lackawaxen 8. Brodhead 9. Green-Dreher 10. Silver Lake 11. Paulins Kill 12. Maurice River Cove i C. Pre-Compact Municipal Water Supply and Waste Disposal Projects – Pursuant to Resolution No. 62-13 Table 1 – Municipal Water Supply Table 2 – Municipal Waste Disposal D. Projects approved by the DRBC pursuant to Sections 3.2 and 13.1 of the Compact (Download File - 180 KB) (List regularly updated as projects are added to Comprehensive Plan, projects listed by docket number) Section III. Non-Urban Recreation Areas A. National 1. Corps. of Engineers 2. National Park Service 3. F&WS B. State 1. Delaware 2. New Jersey 3. New York 4. Pennsylvania Section IV. Stream Gaging Stations ii SECTION I A. Introduction B. General Basin Characteristics C. Delaware River Basin Water Code A. Introduction Comprehensive Plan, Codification, Authority, Purpose and Scope a. Codification of Comprehensive Plan: This document is a codification of the Commission’s existing Comprehensive Plan. It contains the policies, projects and facilities, which constitute the Comprehensive Plan of the Delaware River Basin Commission. (Commission or DRBC) This codification does not contain new policies or new projects. It is a compilation of all past Comprehensive Plan actions by the Commission. The more than 1700 projects added to the Comprehensive Plan over the past 39 years are summarized in a listing in Section II Part D. The complete project description as included in the Comprehensive Plan may be found in the referenced Docket listed for each project. Description of major projects have been included. b. Authority: Article 13 and Section 3.1 of the Delaware River Basin Compact provides that the Delaware River Basin Commission shall develop and adopt, and may from time to time review and revise, a Comprehensive Plan for the immediate and long-range development and use of the water resources of the Basin. The Plan shall include all public and private projects and facilities which are required, in the judgement of the Commission, for the optimum planning, development, conservation, utilization, management and control of the water resources of the Basin to meet present and future needs. c. Purpose: Section 13.2 of the Delaware River Basin Compact specifies that the Commission shall annually adopt a water resources program consisting of the projects and facilities which the Commission proposes to be undertaken during the ensuing six years or such other reasonably foreseeable period as the Commission may determine. The water resources program must be based upon the Commission’s Comprehensive Plan. Section 3.8 of the DRBC’s Compact also requires any project having a substantial effect on the water resources of the Basin to be approved by the Commission before it is undertaken by any person, corporation or governmental authority. The Commission must approve a project whenever it finds and determines that such project would not substantially impair or conflict with the Comprehensive Plan and may modify and approve as modified, or may disapprove any project whenever it finds and determines that the project would substantially impair or conflict with the Plan. DRBC’s Rules of Practice and Procedure in Article 1, Section 2.1 set forth the provisions, which govern the submission, consideration and inclusions of policies, projects and facilities into the Comprehensive Plan. d. Scope: The Comprehensive Plan, including its various parts, is intended to describe the general characteristics of river basin development which the Commission finds to be in the public interest. It does not mandate construction of any project or the acquisition of any land. It provides only a flexible, growing and evolving general framework for the orderly development of the water and related resources of the basin. Section 3.8 review authority provides the opportunity for the Commission to coordinate all activities that could impact existing or proposed water resources projects in the Comprehensive Plan. While the Comprehensive Plan is designed to be continuously updated, it is planned that major changes may occur in the short term as a result of the Flowing to the Future workshops and the directions that flow from the Governor’s Conference. In addition, the on-going work just beginning on the Flow Needs Study may result in a significant revision or redirections. It is the Commission’s intention that a new Comprehensive Plan will be developed in conjunction with and in response to these on-going studies. The Comprehensive Plan was initially adopted by DRBC Resolution No. 62-4 on March 28, 1962. The Plan stated it was to be a body of documents expressing a systematic set of policies and programs for the future, together with consistent means for carrying them out that could be expressed in a variety of ways: through narrative text, maps, charts, schedules, budgets and even legislative text. Since its initial adoption, the Comprehensive Plan has been regularly modified and supplemented. Continuing study of the needs of the basin will always be the key to the Comprehensive Plan. From time to time, therefore, specific projects and facilities and programs will be incorporated, deleted or modified to reflect changing conditions, research results and new technology. Changes in the Plan will be adopted by the Commission only after adequate notice and public hearing. Phase I of the existing Comprehensive Plan (1962) includes specific projects and proposals, as well as basic economic premises, which have been accepted by the Commission as conforming to the requirements of a Comprehensive Plan. In general, the criteria by which this acceptance must be measured are as follows: The project must provide beneficial development of the water resources in a given locality or region; It must be economically and physically feasible; It must conform with accepted public policy; and It must not adversely influence the development of the water resources of the basin. The Plan is not intended to prescribe as to specific areas, design, or function of future projects. Even though the projects are described in the Plan with some reference to technical characteristics, this is primarily for a better understanding of the type of project rather than any prescription of what may be required. The projects may be modified in detail, location, acreage and other features as they move from the planning stage into the stage of design and blueprinting. In particular, it should be noted that the specific acreage of lands to be acquired for any future projects is not fixed by the Comprehensive Plan but is left to specific determination when the project is authorized to be undertaken. Meanwhile, tentative taking lines have been indicated so as to allow adequate lands for recreation, watershed protection, conservation and other water resources purposes beyond the needs of flood control or water supply alone. Financial arrangement for the various projects are also omitted. The Plan does not mandate any expenditure by any public or private agency, or require any contribution to the cost of a particular project. All financial arrangements are left to be worked out, project by project, in accordance with such cost sharing arrangements as may be found to be fair and reasonable. B. General Basin Characteristics: The physical description of the Delaware River Basin as summarized below, was incorporated as background for Phase I of the original Comprehensive Plan. Stretching approximately 326 miles from head-waters to mouth, the Delaware River and its tributaries drain a 12,765 square-mile land area in the northeastern United States. Encompassed within the drainage basin an 2,363 square miles in southeastern New York, 6,422 square miles in eastern Pennsylvania, 2,969 square miles in western New Jersey, 1004 square miles in Delaware, and 8 square miles in Maryland. The area of Delaware Bay adds 782 square miles of water surface to the Delaware River system. On the basis of its physical characteristics, the Basin divides naturally into three general physiographic definitions, namely, the Upper, Central and Lower Regions. The highlands of the southern Catskill and Pocono Mountains are the dominating characteristics of the Upper Region. Here is found the Basin’s maximum elevation of 4,200 feet. Geologically the region is part of the “hard” rock area where bedrock is resistant to erosion. It is almost completely forested, with mixed hardwoods predominating, and almost totally glaciated. The region exhibits the characteristics of a plateau of flat-lying rocks cut by narrow valleys that have been deeply carved by the river and its tributaries. Mean annual temperature is 47 degrees. Mean annual rainfall varies from 60 inches in the mountains to 42 inches in the lower lying areas. Mean annual snow accumulation is 60 inches.
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