deRham v. Diamond

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., sought a Federal license for the construction and operation of facilities known as the Cornwall Project to be constructed on the west bank of the Hudson River in the Village and Towns of Cornwall and Highlands in Orange County, New York. The project is described as a pumped storage hydroelectric generating facility. The purpose of the project is stated to be to supply electricity to the metropolitan New York region and the New York power pool during periods of peaked demand and during periods of emergency. In its operation the facility, to be the…