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According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), New York State has 17 major watersheds. There are smaller watersheds or drainage basins within these. [ 1 ]
Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin.It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.
Capacity in the section of the aqueduct south of Kensico Reservoir to the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers, New York is 880 million US gallons (3,300,000 m 3) per day. [7] The aqueduct normally operates well below capacity with daily averages around 350–400 million US gallons (1,500,000 m 3 ) of water per day.
The Delaware Aqueduct, completed in 1945, taps tributaries of the Delaware River in the western Catskill Mountains and provides approximately half of New York City's water supply. [16] The latter two aqueducts provide 90% of New York City's drinking water, and the watershed for these aqueducts extends a combined 1 million acres (400,000 ha).
Amawalk Dam; Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project; Boyds Corner Dam; Cannonsville Dam; Cross River Dam; Cuba Lake Dam; Cuddebackville Dam; Conklingville Dam
Water from the Schoharie Reservoir flows to New York City through the 16-mile (26 km)-long Shandaken Tunnel, and empties into the Esopus Creek at Shandaken. Another 11 miles (18 km) down the Esopus it empties into the Ashokan Reservoir. From there water enters the 92-mile (147 km) Catskill Aqueduct to the Kensico Reservoir, thence to New York City.
A map of the actual Croton Watershed is found here. The Croton Watershed is the New York City water supply system's name for its southernmost watershed and its infrastructure, [a] an organized entity rather than a mere hydrological feature. Spanning large swaths of Putnam and Westchester counties in far southeastern New York State, it ...
The winning organization was the Conewango Creek Watershed Association, a non-profit organization based in North Warren, Pennsylvania, who received a $10,000 grant intended to be used to integrate the "River of the Year" message into a river sojourn focusing on the watershed's history, wildlife, local fisheries, and related topics. Other ...