History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 346
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] citizens of New York are now drinking, using and wast ing about eighty-five million gallons of water every twenty-four hours, a vast deal more than those who were before them drank at the time the works of the Manhattan Company were put in operation, when water from the celebrated "Tea Water Pump," which for years stood on the corner of Chatham and Pearl Streets, was purchased at a penny a gallon from the vendors who went about the town in carts and sparingly used it as no common luxury. The Croton Dam sets the river back about five miles. The water is conducted to a gateway located on solid rock to the head of the aqueduct on the YORKTOWN. Kir, southern shore, by a tunnel cut a hundred and eighty feet through rock. The gate-chamber is provided