State of Wisconsin v. State of Illinois State of Michigan v. State of Illinois State of New York v. State of Illinois, 7

Decision Date21 April 1930
Docket NumberNo. 11,No. 12,O,No. 7,7,11,12
PartiesSTATE OF WISCONSIN, State of Minnesota, State of Ohio, and State of Pennsylvania, Complainants, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS and Sanitary District of Chicago, Defendants. (State of Missouri, State of Kentucky, State of Tennessee, State of Louisiana, State of Mississippi, and State of Arkansas, Intervening Defendants). STATE OF MICHIGAN, Complaint, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS and Sanitary District of Chicago, et al., Defendants. STATE OF NEW YORK, Complant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS and Sanitary District of Chicago, et al., Defendants. riginal. riginal. riginal
CourtU.S. Supreme Court
Decree.

These causes came on to be heard upon the pleadings, evidence, and the exceptions filed by the parties to the Report of the Special Master, as well as on the exceptions filed to the Report of the Special Master on Re-reference, and were argued by counsel. The court now being fully advised in the premises, and for the purpose of carrying into effect the conclusions set forth in the opinions of this Court announced January 14, 1929 (278 U. S. 367, 49 S. Ct. 163, 73 L. Ed. 426), and April 14, 1930 (281 U. S. 179, 50 S. Ct. 266, 74 L. Ed. —).

It is now here ordered, adjudged, and decreed as follows:

1. On and after July 1, 1930, the defendants, the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, their employees and agents, and all persons assuming to act under the authority of either of them, be and they hereby are enjoined from diverting any of the waters of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system or watershed through the Chicago Drainage Canal and its auxiliary channels or otherwise in excess of an annual average of 6,500 cubic feet per second in addition to domestic pumpage.

2. That on and after December 31, 1935, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, the defendants, the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, their employees and agents, and all persons assuming to act under the authority of either of them, be and they hereby are enjoined from diverting any of the waters of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system or watershed through the Chicago Drainage Canal and its auxiliary channels or otherwise in excess of an annual average of 5,000 cubic feet per second in addition to domestic pumpage.

3. That on and after December 31, 1938, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, the defendants, the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, their employees and agents, and all persons assuming to act under the authority of either of them, be and they hereby are enjoined from diverting any of the waters of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system or watershed through the...

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