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The station was originally built by the New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad in 1883 as Aqueduct, along what became the now-former Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in 1887, and was taken out of service on November 29, 1939, as part of a grade elimination project. A temporary center-island station was built west of the ...
Edmonston Pumping Plant is a pumping station near the south end of the California Aqueduct, which is the principal feature of the California State Water Project. It lifts water 1,926 feet (600 m) to cross the Tehachapi Mountains where it splits into the west and east branches of the California Aqueduct serving Southern California.
The Aqueduct Racetrack station is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway.Located on the west side of Aqueduct Racetrack near Pitkin Avenue in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, [6] it is served by northbound A trains at all times [7] and by the northbound Rockaway Park Shuttle during summer weekends.
The aqueduct project began in 1905 when the voters of Los Angeles approved a US$1.5 million bond for the 'purchase of lands and water and the inauguration of work on the aqueduct'. On June 12, 1907, a second bond was passed with a budget of US$24.5 million to fund construction.
The California Aqueduct East Branch, flowing east after crossing under state route 138. The aqueduct splits off into the East Branch and West Branch in extreme southern Kern County, north of the Los Angeles County line. The East Branch supplies Lake Palmdale and terminates at Lake Perris, in the area of the San Gorgonio Pass. It passes through ...
The Washington Aqueduct is an aqueduct that provides the public water supply system serving Washington, D.C., and parts of its suburbs, using water from the Potomac River. One of the first major aqueduct projects in the United States, it was commissioned by the U.S. Congress in 1852, and construction began in 1853 under the supervision of ...
Old Croton Aqueduct, Mill River Culvert Extant Culvert: 1841 1984 Croton Aqueduct: Pocantico River: Tarrytown: Westchester: NY-114: Old Croton Aqueduct, Jewels Brook Culvert Extant Culvert: 1839 1984 Croton Aqueduct: Station Road Irvington
In 1960, Metropolitan, along with 30 other public agencies, signed a long-term contract that made possible the construction of the State Water Project, including reservoirs, pumping plants and the 444-mile California Aqueduct (715 km), which serves urban and agricultural agencies from the San Francisco Bay to Southern California.