Download or read book The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York written by New York (N.Y.). Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire of Water written by David Soll and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 297 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 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 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 The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York written by Department of Water Supply Gas and El and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York is a technical resource for civil engineers and urban planners. Produced by the Department of Water Supply of New York City, this book offers a detailed description of the city's water supply system, including its history, design, and operation. This book is an invaluable reference for anyone working in the field of urban infrastructure. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Brief Sketch of the Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York 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 34 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 The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York: A General Description Of the 6,000,000 inhabitants, more or less, of New York City, all but about 400,000 are supplied with water by the municipality. Such 400,000, constituting a portion of the inhabitants of the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, are supplied by private water companies. This pamphlet deals principally with the municipal water supply system and the work incident to the care, operation and development thereof, which work is confided by statute to the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. The department's jurisdiction and principal duties in relation to this work are as follows: 1. It has jurisdiction, charge and control (a) of the sources of supply of all water furnished by the city, (b) of all water supply structures owned by the city, including reservoirs, dams, aqueducts and gatehouses, and (c) of the city's distribution system, including pumping stations, water mains, valves and fire hydrants. It supplies about 5,600,000 people with water for domestic and business uses and for fire protection, and in so doing operates and maintains the greatest municipal water supply system in the world, of an estimated cost of $341,500,000. 2. It is responsible for the quality of the water, whether supplied by the city or by private water companies. 3. It operates through electrically driven pumps the high pressure fire service in Manhattan and Brooklyn and through gas driven pumps that are at Coney Island. 4. It collects the water revenue, amounting to about $15,000,000 per annum. 5. In conjunction with the Board of Aldermen it fixes the rates at which water supplied by the city shall be sold. 6. It tests water meters. It may require their installation in places where water is supplied for business purposes and it inspects and reads some 108,000 at regular intervals. It may recommend to the Board of Aldermen their installation in residential premises and there install them with the consent of such Board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
Download or read book A Brief Sketch of the Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York written by New York (N y ) Dept of Water Supply and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Water Supply of the City of New York written by New York (N.Y.). Department of Water Supply and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 172 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 Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service written by Public Affairs Information Service and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Great Cities are Fed written by Walter Page Hedden and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concrete and Clay written by Matthew Gandy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City. In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement. Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York's environmental history is bound up not only with the upstate landscapes that stretch beyond the city's political boundaries but also with more distant places that reflect the nation's colonial and imperial legacies. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods.
Download or read book The American City written by Arthur Hastings Grant and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department Reports of the State of New York written by New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
