History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 4 (part 4)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This river, with other waters which have been artificially connected with it, affords to New York City a water supply of its own, quite independent of the Croton system--a fact, perhaps, not generally understood. It is dammed at Kensico Station, making a storage reservoir of 250 acres. A similar dam has been thrown across the Byram Eiver, and another across the outlet of Little Bye Pond. By the damming of Little Rye Pond that body of water, with Rye Pond, has been converted into a single lake, having an area of 280 acres. The three parts of this system — the Bronx, Byram, and Rye Poml reservoirs — are, as already stated, connected artificially, and the water is delivered into a receiving reservoir at AY illiams's Bridge through the so-called Bronx River pipe line, a conduit of forty-eight-inch cast-iron pipe. The portion of the Bronx watershed drained for this purpose has an area of thirteen and one-third square miles.