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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.
New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 is a water-supply tunnel forming part of the New York City water supply system. It is being built by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) to provide New York City with a third connection to its upstate water supply. The tunnel will serve as a backup to Water Tunnel No. 1, completed ...
The Croton Aqueduct or Old Croton Aqueduct was a large and complex water distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842. The great aqueducts, which were among the first in the United States, carried water by gravity 41 miles (66 km) from the Croton River in Westchester County to reservoirs in Manhattan.
The Catskill Aqueduct in northern Orange County Map of Catskill Aqueduct Construction of Catskill Aqueduct, 1911. The Catskill Aqueduct, part of the New York City water supply system, brings water from the Catskill Mountains to Yonkers where it connects to other parts of the system.
NYCDEP manages three upstate supply systems to provide the city's drinking water: the Croton system, the Catskill system, and the Delaware system. The overall distribution system has a storage capacity of 550 billion US gallons (2.1 × 10 9 m 3) and provides over 1 billion US gallons (3,800,000 m 3) per day of water to more than eight million city residents and another one million users in ...
The Croton River is part of the New York City water supply system, the flow of its three branches are collected at the New Croton Reservoir. Pictured, New Croton Dam Croton River as it flows away from Croton Dam. The Croton River was the main source of the city water supply from 1842 to the mid-20th century.
The Croton Watershed is a term describing a part of the New York City water supply system. It is not synonymous with the biological feature Croton River watershed . Numerous small natural lakes and ponds, as well as large Lake Mahopac , are within the river's watershed but not part of the NYC water supply system (even though they too ultimately ...
Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond, [1] was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan , it was the main New York City water supply system for the growing city.