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The Greatest of Engineering Feats
{Bringing Catskill Mountain Water to New York City
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By PHIL LANG
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A few years hence, when the water streams flows thru the city from the Catskill mountain mains of Greater New York, a feat of engineering — without question the greatest in history — will have been accomplished.
It was to be expected that New York's water supply would in time prove inadequate. Years ago experts pointed with apprehension to the notto-be-disregarded law of supply and demand, which made more extensive arrangements imperative. When it is remembered that the daily consumption of water in New York has been approximately 125 gallons per capita, as compared with 200 and even 320 in several other large cities of the United States, it will be seen that New York's allowance is quite moderate and that the installation of the new system, which will require an expenditure of millions of dollars, is not an extravagance, but an urgent necessity.
Since the time of our grand parents, New York has depended upon Croton River, which drains thru its reservoir the water of 360 square
miles and furnishes a daily average of 336,000,000 gallons. Two aqueducts, 34 and 32 miles long, bring 80,000,000 and 300,000,000 gallons, respectively, into the city. The gigantic proportions of the completed system will be understood when it is stated that the work now in progress will add 770,000,000 gallons of Catskill water daily. This supply drains from an area of nearly 900 square miles and necessitates the construction of new reservoirs, dams and dykes, an aqueduct 92 miles long — to the city lir e at Yonkers — and tunnels aggregating 18 miles thruout the city, as well as 16 miles of large pipes.
The main province of a reservoir is, of course, the regulation of water distribution, as the supply from the turbulent streams of spring diminishes until the midsummer drought arrives. Of the new Catskill reservoirs, the Ashokan, located 14 miles west of the Hudson, at Kingston, and approximately 86 miles from New York, is by far the greatest. Seven villages will be removed to make way for this gigantic basin, with its shore line of 40 miles. With a water area of 12.8
STORM KING MOUNTAIN, WHERE THE CATSKILL AQUEDUCT PASSES UNDER
THE HUDSON AT A DEPTH OF 1,100 FEET
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