Palmer Water Co. v. Lehighton Water Supply Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

The Pohopoco, or Big Creek, rises in the Pocono Mountains and flows through Carbon County into the Lehigh River, being from twenty-five to twenty-eight miles in length. It has many tributaries, some of good size, of which Pine Run, the center of this controversy, is one of the largest. Big Creek drains a watershed of 110 square miles, a little less than half the new water supply of New York City, and about one-third the Croton Basin, which has heretofore supplied nearly three million people in New York, or a very few square miles short of being as large as…