Croton Dams And Aqueduct
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| Author | : Christopher R. Tompkins |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 9780738504551 |
This collection of rare photographs chronicles the construction of one of the largest masonry dams ever built. From the beginnings of the first Croton Dam, completed in 1842, and of the new dam, which was finished in 1907, up to the present day, The Croton Dams and Aqueduct provides a stunning portrait of the entire project and the region that it impacted: New York City and Westchester County. As early as the 1770s, New York considered creating waterworks and even proposed damming area rivers, including the Hudson. With disease and fires blamed on the lack of water, plans were created c. 1830 to dam the Croton River. By 1842, water from the first dam flowed into New York City from Yorktown. Built to provide enough water for "centuries," the first dam was obsolete by the 1880s. Exponential growth from immigration created the demand for more water, and New York built the New Croton Dam. The new dam not only provided clean water for New York's burgeoning population but also spawned a new community of immigrant workers in the once Anglo community of Westchester County.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Hudson River Museum |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9780943651255 |
| Author | : Gerard T. Koeppel |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2001-08-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780691089768 |
This text examines New York City's struggle for that vital and basic element - clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, it shows how the project developed up to 1842 when the Croton Aqueduct was secured.
| Author | : Kevin Bone |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the story of the program of exploration and construction to achieve such purity. The story is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels.
| Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2020-12-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309679702 |
New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billion gallons. The city's Watershed Protection Program is intended to maintain and enhance the high quality of these surface water sources. Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program assesses the efficacy and future of New York City's watershed management activities. The report identifies program areas that may require future change or action, including continued efforts to address turbidity and responding to changes in reservoir water quality as a result of climate change.
| Author | : Diane Galusha |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Water-supply |
| ISBN | : 9781930098435 |
"In Liquid Assets, author Diane Galusha traces for the first time between the covers of a single volume the development of the amazing water system that altered landscapes, transformed lives, and made possible New York's preeminence among the world's great cities."--Back cover.
| Author | : John Bloomfield Jervis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Stanley Greenberg |
| Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2003-03 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1568983883 |
A collection of photographs which profile the aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, gatehouses, and tanks of New York's water system.
| Author | : Robert B. Jansen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Dam failures |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Christopher R. Tompkins |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Library Editions |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2000-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781531602796 |
This collection of rare photographs chronicles the construction of one of the largest masonry dams ever built. From the beginnings of the first Croton Dam, completed in 1842, and of the new dam, which was finished in 1907, up to the present day, The Croton Dams and Aqueduct provides a stunning portrait of the entire project and the region that it impacted: New York City and Westchester County. As early as the 1770s, New York considered creating waterworks and even proposed damming area rivers, including the Hudson. With disease and fires blamed on the lack of water, plans were created c. 1830 to dam the Croton River. By 1842, water from the first dam flowed into New York City from Yorktown. Built to provide enough water for "centuries," the first dam was obsolete by the 1880s. Exponential growth from immigration created the demand for more water, and New York built the New Croton Dam. The new dam not only provided clean water for New York's burgeoning population but also spawned a new community of immigrant workers in the once Anglo community of Westchester County.
