Download or read book Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-02-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City's watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution sources, advances in treatment technologies, and natural variations in watershed conditions. The book recommends that New York City place its highest priority on pathogenic microorganisms in the watershed and direct its resources toward improving methods for detecting pathogens, understanding pathogen transport and fate, and demonstrating that best management practices will remove pathogens. Other recommendations, which are broadly applicable to surface water supplies across the country, target buffer zones, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.
Download or read book Report of the Commission on Additional Water Supply for the City of New York Made to R C Monroe Nov 1903 written by New York (N.Y.). Commission on Additional Water Supply and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of New York Additional Water Supply written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Water Supply and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Water supply of the City of New York 1658 1895 written by Edward Wegmann and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water works written by Kevin Bone and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Empire of Water written by David Soll and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water system in 1842, it began to expand the network, eventually reaching far into the Catskill Mountains, more than one hundred miles from the city. Empire of Water explores the history of New York City's water system from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, focusing on the geographical, environmental, and political repercussions of the city's search for more water. Soll vividly recounts the profound environmental implications for both city and countryside. Some of the region's most prominent landmarks, such as the High Bridge across the Harlem River, Central Park's Great Lawn, and the Ashokan Reservoir in Ulster County, have their origins in the city's water system. By tracing the evolution of the city's water conservation efforts and watershed management regime, Soll reveals the tremendous shifts in environmental practices and consciousness that occurred during the twentieth century. Few episodes better capture the long-standing upstate-downstate divide in New York than the story of how mountain water came to flow from spigots in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Soll concludes by focusing on the landmark watershed protection agreement signed in 1997 between the city, watershed residents, environmental organizations, and the state and federal governments. After decades of rancor between the city and Catskill residents, the two sides set aside their differences to forge a new model of environmental stewardship. His account of this unlikely environmental success story offers a behind the scenes perspective on the nation's most ambitious and wide-ranging watershed protection program.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Water Supply of the City of New York written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Water Supply and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by Report of the Chief Engineer.
Download or read book Report of the Board of Water Supply of the City of New York to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Water Supply and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Water Supply of the City of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Inquiry into the conditions relating to the water supply of the city of New York written by Commerce and Industry Association of New York and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York a General Description written by New York (N.Y.). Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on an Additional Water Supply for the City of Troy written by Troy (N.Y.). Water Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Conditions Relating to the Water supply of the City of New York written by Commerce and Industry Association of New York and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Operations Support Tool for Water Supply written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's water supply system is one of the oldest, largest, and most complex in the nation. It delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons of water each day from three upstate watersheds (Croton, Catskill, and Delaware) to meet the needs of more than eight million people in the City, one million people in Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Ulster counties, and millions of commuters and tourists who visit the City throughout the year. The Catskill and Delaware portions, which make up about 90 percent of the supply, receive no filtration or treatment other than disinfection, except for rare instances of high turbidity when a coagulant is added to increase deposition of suspended solids. The remaining 10 percent of the supply comes from the Croton watershed and receives treatment via filtration. The drinking water supply is managed by the Bureau of Water Supply within the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP). To continue to avoid filtration of the Catskill/Delaware portion of the water supply, in 2007, NYC DEP reexamined its control of turbidity in the Catskill portion of the water supply, including both structural improvements to the system and operational changes. The Operations Support Tool (OST) was developed as part of these efforts. OST couples models of reservoir operations and water quality; it uses real-time data on streamflow, snow pack, water quality, reservoir levels, diversions, and releases; and it incorporates streamflow forecastsâ€"all in order to predict future reservoir levels, water delivery to customers, and water quality within the system. These predictions inform the system operators, who then make decisions based on the most current data and forecasts. This report reviews the use of OST in current and future reservoir operations. It considers potential ways in which the City can more effectively use OST, makes recommendations for additional performance measures, and reviews the potential effects of climate change on the City's water supply to help identify and enhance understanding of areas of potential future concern with regard to the use of OST.
Download or read book Report on a Water Supply for New York and Other Cities of the Hudson Valley written by John Thomas Fanning and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Water Supply of the City of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Upon New York s Water Supply written by John Ripley Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
