New York Laws
Title 10 - Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact
21-1009 - Grievances.

1. For the purposes of section 7.3 of the Compact, a person shall be
aggrieved only when they have exhausted all rights and remedies afforded
pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules
and:

a. there is interference with a present use of the water by the
complaining person or an interference with the complaining person's
present enjoyment of riparian land occurring prior to suit, or which
will immediately occur when the withdrawal complained of is begun;

b. a decrease in the market value of the complaining person's interest
in riparian land occurring prior to suit or which will immediately occur
when the withdrawal complained of is begun, regardless of whether his or
her use of the water or enjoyment of riparian land was interfered with
prior to suit, or will be immediately interfered with when the
withdrawal complained of is begun; or

c. the complaining person is an applicant, and the complaining
person's application is denied or modified in whole or in part.

2. Nothing contained in this section shall, however, be construed as
depriving any person of any remedy either at law or in equity, which he
or she now has, or may hereafter acquire, under the laws of this state.

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