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  2. New York City water supply system - Wikipedia

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    The New York City Water Board was established in 1905. It sets water and sewer rates for New York City sufficient to pay the costs of operating and financing the system, and collects user payments from customers for services provided by the water and wastewater utility systems of the City of New York.

  3. Drawdown (hydrology) - Wikipedia

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    Static level is the level of water in the well when no water is being removed from the well by pumping. [8] Water table is the upper level of the zone of saturation, an underground surface in which the soil or rock is permanently saturated with water. [9] Well yield is the volume of water per unit time that is produced by the well from pumping. [8]

  4. New York City Department of Design and Construction

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    New York City Department of Design and Construction is the department of the government of New York City [2] that builds many of the civic facilities in New York City.As the city’s primary capital construction project manager, it provides new or renovated facilities such as firehouses, libraries, police precincts, courthouses and manage the city's sewer systems, bioswales and water mains.

  5. Catskill Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    The aqueduct transports water from Ashokan as well as the Schoharie Reservoir, which feeds into Ashokan. [8] The aqueduct then enters Westchester County, New York, and flows to the Kensico Reservoir, which also receives water from the city's Delaware Aqueduct. It continues from the Kensico reservoir and terminates at the Hillview Reservoir in ...

  6. Hydrostatics - Wikipedia

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    The cup consists of a line carved into the interior of the cup, and a small vertical pipe in the center of the cup that leads to the bottom. The height of this pipe is the same as the line carved into the interior of the cup. The cup may be filled to the line without any fluid passing into the pipe in the center of the cup.

  7. Water level (device) - Wikipedia

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    The water level at each end of the tube will be at the same elevation, whether the two ends are adjacent or far apart, so a line between them will be horizontal at its midpoint and a shed base, building foundation or similar structure laid out using several such lines will be "horizontal" within building tolerances on any scale over which use ...

  8. NYC’s Riis Houses on edge after arsenic scare, week without ...

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    Adams visited the buildings to hand out water bottles the night of Sept. 2, after being informed that initial testing showed elevated levels of arsenic in the tap water. The city first alerted ...

  9. The Bathtub - Wikipedia

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    The World Trade Center site was located on man-made water-clogged landfill that had accumulated over centuries, providing an extension of land out onto the Hudson River from the original Manhattan shoreline, with bedrock located 65 feet (20 m) below. Manually removing water from this area would have severely altered the water levels surrounding ...