Interstate Sanitation Com. v. Weehawken Twp.

Pursuant to R.S. 32:18-1 the State of New Jersey through a commission duly constituted entered into an agreement or compact (hereinafter called Compact) with the State of New York for the purpose of controlling and abating pollution of the harbor, coastal and tidal waters surrounding and adjacent to the harbor of New York through cooperation of this State and the State of New York (and later the State of Connecticut), by which Compact the States of New Jersey and New York agreed to control future pollution and to provide for abatement of existing pollution in such waters in the adjacent…