§1962d–11a Potomac River water diversion structure

Summary

Allows the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to build a water diversion structure from its Potomac River filtration plant to the north shore of Watkins Island. The top of the structure must not be higher than 159 feet above sea level. The structure cannot be built until the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, and the State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, and any other needed government parties sign a written agreement that gives an enforceable schedule for how water withdrawals will be shared during low river flows for the stretch of the Potomac between Little Falls Dam and the upstream limit of the pool behind the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company rubble dam at Seneca, Maryland. The Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, may enter into that agreement and make changes to it. Unless the agreement says otherwise, nothing here changes the water rights or other authority that Maryland, its local governments, Virginia, its local governments, the District of Columbia, or the Corps of Engineers had on October 22, 1976.