Catskill Water Supply: A General Description1915 - Catskill Aqueduct (N.Y.) - 39 pages |
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12 feet 62 CONT acres aerator Ashokan reservoir avenue basin Board of Estimate Board of Water bolts boroughs Bronx bronze pipe BROOK SIPHON Brooklyn built camp cast-iron pipe Catskill aqueduct Catskill creeks Catskill mountains City line City tunnel concrete blocks conduit connection construction CONT CONT Contract contractors Croton cubic yards cut-and-cover Cyclopean Department Engineer derricks Diam dike downstream face DOWNTAKE SHAFT Drainage shaft earth embankment Elevation Esopus Estimate and Apportionment excavation expansion-joints feet high feet in diameter feet long flow line foot foreground gallons gate-chamber gate-house grade tunnel hight Hill View reservoir Hudson River invert Jerome Park reservoir Kensico dam Kensico reservoir length linear feet masonry maximum MOODNA CREEK Mosholu Narrows siphon Olive Bridge dam Original surface piezometer plant portion Reinforced concrete rock RONDOUT Schoharie section valve Silver Lake reservoir steel pipe stone terrace TUNNEL SHAFT Venturi meter weir yards per linear Yonkers pressure tunnel York