Legal Opinion
Board of Supervisors of Ontario County v. Water Power & Control Commission
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 20, 1929PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
The city of Rochester has petitioned the Water Power and Control Commission of the State to approve its project for an additional water supply and the acquiring of land therefor. The city plans to take Honeoye lake and creek, together, with uplands in Ontario county which will receive the drainage from one hundred and eighty-seven square miles. A dam eight hundred feet long and sixty feet high is to be built across Honeoye creek valley forming a reservoir having a water surface of twelve and a half square miles. This will entirely submerge Honeoye lake. Also, it is planned to utilize Mud or…
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