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The UV facility treats water delivered by two of the city's aqueduct systems, the Catskill Aqueduct and the Delaware Aqueduct, via the Kensico Reservoir. [3] (The city's third supply system, the New Croton Aqueduct, has a separate treatment plant. [4]) The plant has 56 energy-efficient UV reactors, and cost the city $1.6 billion.
All water is treated for enhanced disinfection at a location close to Kensico: The world's largest ultraviolet water treatment facility — the Catskill-Delaware Ultraviolet Light Disinfection ...
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).
The world's largest water disinfection plant treats drinking water for New York City. The Catskill-Delaware Water Ultraviolet Disinfection Facility, commissioned on 8 October 2013, incorporates a total of 56 energy-efficient UV reactors treating up to 2.2 billion U.S. gallons (8.3 billion liters) a day. [108] [109]
The Catskill Aqueduct has an operational capacity of about 550 million US gallons (2,100,000 m 3) per day north of the Kensico Reservoir in Valhalla, New York. 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 ]
Catskill Aqueduct; Catskill-Delaware Water Ultraviolet Disinfection Facility; Collect Pond; ... Croton Water Filtration Plant; Croton Watershed; D. Delaware Aqueduct; F.
The Pepacton Reservoir, also known as the Downsville Reservoir, is a reservoir in Delaware County, New York on the East Branch of the Delaware River in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Part of the New York City water supply system, it was formed by the construction of Downsville Dam, and impounds over one-quarter of the East Branch's flow.
The proposal would have allowed developers to build the small sewage-treatment plants and turn them over to homeowners associations to operate them until water and sewer lines are extended to the ...