River basin commissions created by compacts to coordinate water resource planning have become greedy bureaucratic empires thirsty for ever more control.

There is battle for sovereignty going on this country between states and river basin commissions they created long ago to jointly develop water resources. It’s like a scene out of that old movie 2001, where a computer named Hal suddenly assumes control over its makers. River basin commissions such as the ones created for the Delaware and Susquehanna River watersheds are accumulating power to themselves over land use and economic development with metastasizing regulations and fees that are rendering state governments more and more irrelevant.

The Delaware River Basin Compact between the states of Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania and the Federal government was signed in 1961. The Susquehanna River Basin Compact between the states of Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania and the Federal government was signed into law in 1970. The majority of both commissions currently consists of the same three individuals; Brigadier General William H. Graham for the Federal government, New York State DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos for Andrew Cuomo and the Empire State and Pennsylvania DEP Commissioner Patrick McDonnell for Governor Tom Wolf and the Commonwealth.

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