New York Laws
Title 15 - Water Supply
15-1505 - Interbasin Diversions and Water Supply to Other States.

1. No person shall transport or carry through pipes, conduits, ditches
or canals the waters of any fresh water lake, pond, brook, river,
stream, or creek in this state or any well, subsurface or percolating
waters of this state into any other state for use therein without first
obtaining a permit from the department pursuant to this title.

2. No person shall make a new or increased interbasin diversion which
results in a diversion in excess of one million gallons per day, as
determined by the limiting maximum capacity of the treatment or
conveyance system, or construct facilities or equipment therefor, until
such person has registered the diversion with the department. No later
than February fifteenth, two thousand thirteen, all existing interbasin
diversions in excess of one million gallons per day, as determined by
the limiting maximum capacity of the treatment or conveyance system,
shall be registered with the department.

3. Registration is not required for an interbasin diversion which is
part of a water withdrawal system for which the department has issued a
permit under this title, or which is operating pursuant to a duly
authorized permit issued by the department or its predecessors.

4. Registration shall be renewed every year or whenever ownership of
the facilities which create an interbasin diversion is transferred,
whichever occurs first. Registration shall be made on forms prescribed
by the department and shall contain all information requested by the
department relative to the water withdrawal, use and discharge. Each
person who is required under this section to register shall annually, on
a form prescribed by the department, report all information requested by
the department, including the amount of water diverted. Information on
interbasin diversions shall be posted on the department's website.

5. No person shall make a new or increased interbasin diversion which
results in a significant adverse impact on the water quantity of the
source New York major drainage basin.

6. Diversions from the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence river basin are
prohibited by the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources
Compact, as enacted in title ten of article twenty-one of this chapter.
Limited exceptions for public water supply systems will only be
considered when in compliance with that Compact.