Abstract
In 2001, the New York State Siting Commission for Public Utilities scheduled Hearings on an application for the use of ground water and surface water for power generation in New York that would affect the drinking water supply in northeast New Jersey. The applicant proposed construction and operation of a 1,100 megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle combustion turbine electric generating station. The proposed 1,100 megawatt station was to serve peak electric demands in a portion of the grid serving metropolitan New York. This paper will compare and contrast the technical, legal and institutional analysis of ground and surface water interactions. In addition, an historic perspective on the calculation of ground and surface water interactions to determine drought severity will be taken from the Report on Water-Supply, Water-Power, the Flow of Streams and Attendant Phenomena dated 1894 prepared for the New Jersey State Geologist by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule, Consulting Engineer. In that text, now available online through Google books, the author noted how precipitation and cumulative precipitation deficits could determine groundwater contribution to surface water baseflow.
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