Excerpt from The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York: A General Description Kensico reservoir, with an available capacity of mg. (or sufficient to supply the city with water for about two has been built on the line of the Catskill aqueduct, near Valhalla, as a storage reservoir for the purpose of main taining the supply of the city when the aqueduct north of that point may be temporarily out of service. As already stated, it receives also the water from the Byram and Bronx water sheds. Hill View reservoir ...
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Excerpt from The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York: A General Description Kensico reservoir, with an available capacity of mg. (or sufficient to supply the city with water for about two has been built on the line of the Catskill aqueduct, near Valhalla, as a storage reservoir for the purpose of main taining the supply of the city when the aqueduct north of that point may be temporarily out of service. As already stated, it receives also the water from the Byram and Bronx water sheds. Hill View reservoir, located within the limits of Yon kers and fifteen miles south of Kensico reservoir, has been constructed to regulate the flow of Water as between the aque duct where it is relatively steady, and the city mains, in which it varies from hour to hour. It holds 929 mg. Of water and has a depth of 36% feet. Its elevation of 295 feet above sea level determines the head of the Catskill supply. The Catskill aqueduct is either circular or horseshoe in section, with a maximum height of 17% feet and a capacity of at least 500 m.g.d. It will not be utilized to capacty until the Schoharie watershed shall have been developed (at which time additional pipe siphons across certain valleys must be built, as the present siphons limit the capacity to about 375 The Catskill supply is delivered to the street mains in the bor oughs of Manhattan and the Bronx through nineteen water way shafts. And from the Brooklyn terminal shafts large, steel pipe conduits have been laid in the streets to supply the bor oughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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