BALTIMORE CITY. 1269

WATER SUPPLY IMPROVEMENT.

1908, ch. 214, sec. 1.

826B. That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is
hereby authorized and empowered to convert the entire valley or basin
of the Gunpowder River, in Baltimore County, and its dependencies, or
so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act, from
the present dam, at the lower end of Loch Raven, in said county, to the'
upper end of the village of Phoenix, in said county, or to such point
above said village as may be necessary or proper for the purposes of this
Act, into a reservoir or basin for augmenting and improving the municipal
water supply of the City of Baltimore; to create, establish and maintain
said reservoir or lake and its appurtenances, and to conduct the waters
of said reservoir or lake, along such route, or routes, and in such manner,
and by such instrumentalities and means, as may be necessary or proper
for the purposes of this Act, including such works, and their appurte-
nances at Lake Roland, and at or near Baltimore City, as may be neces-
sary or proper for the purposes of this Act, to the City of Baltimore and-
its environs for the use of said city, and of its inhabitants, and of such
other persons as may now or hereafter be lawfully furnished with water-
by said city, to utilize, appropriate, divert, deflect, straighten, riprap, or
otherwise modify or control, for the purposes of this Act, all springs,
brooks, creeks, rivulets, rivers or other water courses, tributary (or cap-
able of being rendered tributary) to, or obstructive of, the purposes of
this Act; to create, establish, set apart and maintain, regulate and protect,
afforest or otherwise improve water sheds and reservations along, and to
such full extent of adjacency as may be necessary for the purposes of
this Act, adjacent to the waters' of said reservoir or lake, for securing a
pure, copious and constant flow of water into said reservoir or lake, to
create, establish and maintain, construct, erect, lay, lay out and employ
all such dams, walls, bulkheads, dykes, inlets, waste ways, water gates,
bridges, tunnels, aqueducts, water ways, conduits, culverts, drains, mains,
pipes, settling or other reservoirs, lakes, basins or ponds, power houses,
pump houses or other buildings, structures or erections, roads, ways, ap-
proaches, appurtenances, agencies, instrumentalities or means, as may be
necessary or proper, for the purposes of this Act, including all instru-
mentalities or means for diverting, deflecting, disposing of, controlling,
collecting, confining, impounding, storing, protecting, clarifying, purify-
ing, transmitting or distributing, or otherwise handling, water that may
be necessary or proper for the purpose of promoting or securing the full
working efficiency and utility of said reservoir, or lake for the objects for
which it is intended by this Act; to incorporate with said reservoir or
lake and its appurtenances, for the purposes of this Act, all, or any part,
or parts of Loch Raven and its appurtenances or environs, or all or any
part, or parts, of Lake Roland and its appurtenances or environs, to
utilize, extend, enlarge, reinforce, adopt, reconstruct, alter, re-equip or
repair, for the purposes of this Act, or for other purposes affecting the
municipal water supply of Baltimore City, all or any part, or parts, of the