…Albert Brayton, the son of one of the dam contractors, perceiving about one o'clock, the danger to the people below the dam on the opposite side, by the continued rise of the water at the dam, and believing that…

…At 300 feet below the main dam, a second dam is in progress, which is to be 9 feet high, constructed of timber, stone and gravel, which will set the water back over the apron of the main dam, and…

…is a view taken from a point below the dam and shows the relative positions of the dam and the gate chamber at the head of the Aqueduct. The original channel of the River where the dam is built, X…

…This dam was proposed to be built about 2 feet above the level of high tide, thereby keeping all the salt water below ; and above the dam would be the fresh water for supplying the city, which must be pumped…

…the apron at the toe of the dam, and thereby breaking the force of the fall, by its action on a body of water, there has been constructed, at a point 300 feet below the main dam, a secondary dam…

…These are all the losses which have come to our knowledge on the Crotori River, and all the losses to everybody above and below the dam, including the dam, are considerably inside of $75,000." No other parts of the…

…The line cuts a small section of marble of infe- rior quality, about two miles below the Croton dam. In running through the State farm at Sing Sing, it passes a few hundred feet (mostly by a tunnel) in a…

…the dam, yet we fear, that, in locking vessels up, more or less of the salt water below the dam will follow them, and although the quantity may be compara- tively small, the constant repetition of the operation, by the…

distance of about three miles carrying away m its course, Quaker bridge, Holman 's mills, and the old piers of the old Croton bridge.... All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and…

…The aqueduct proceeds from the Sing Sing tunnel, crossing both the aforesaid street and creek, from north to south. 3d. An archway over the Highland turnpike, now highway, about eleven miles below the Croton dam, of 20 feet span, and…

…Seymour is of opinion that no injury will be done to the land on the banks of the Hudson by the rise of water within the dam ; but, the Commissioners think, the rising of the water permanently, two feet above…

…Current Designation(s) Sign MUSCOOT DAM 1905 Plate 15-, New Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) MILL RIVER WASTE WEIR 1837-1841 Plate 22-6, Old Croton Aqueduct Spanning a depression 72 feet below grade, the Mill River Culvert’s 172…

…Ogee Shape of the Weir Overflow figure 25. below left: Lt. Theophilus Schramke. Croton Dam Design — Cross Section of Ogee Curve, engraving In Description of the Sen' York Croton Aqueduct in English, German and French, 1846 Courtesy William Lee Frost…

…The water is set back at this place by a dam for a mill a short distance below, giving the stream an appearance of more magnitude than it really possesses. This point is 25 miles from the dam. The wall…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) AMAWALK GATEHOUSE 1889-1896 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Located south of the main dam, the gatehouse receives water from the tower and sends it to the fountain…

…This secondary dam is formed of round timber, brush wood, and gravel ; it may be seen in the picture directly under the bridge which extends across below the main structure. On the upstream side of the masonry of the dam…

…The bottom of the water-way of the Aqueduct at the gate chamber where it enters the Receiving Reservoir, is 7.86 feet below the level of top water line in the Reservoir, thus when the Reservoir is full the…

…The dam requires an expenditure of about one thousand dollars to complete the contract. The bridge across the Croton River, which was made in lieu of the one overflown by the water of the river, and the portion of the…

…The greatest height of the weir of the dam is 40 feet above the low-water level, and 55 feet above the bed of the river. The width of masonry, at low-water line of river, is 61 feet. The…

…Old Croton Aqueduct Residing 105 feet below the Old Croton Aqueduct’s grade, Manhattan Valley, two miles south of High Bridge, was traversed by an inverted siphon of cast iron pipes. MIDDLE BRANCH DAM 1874-1878 Plate 4-, New Croton…

dam, an em- bankment of earth is filled in, extending 275 feet from the masonry at the base, and extending from the masonry with a slope of 1 foot in 5 on the top. The whole work about the dam…

…All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and we are informed Wood's Bridge also — leaving no crossing over the Croton from its mouth to Golden's bridge ....■^^ The newspaper account provides…

…much below on the other (figure 13). No great varia- tion would have been possible. Jervis also concurred with the loca- tion of the dam at Garretson's Mill, seven miles upstream from the Croton's junction with the Hudson…

…11 COAL WHARF c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct Type A wharf on the Harlem River below Shaft Number 25 that received coal shipments to power the engines in the pump house and Shaft Number 25. Type Significance…

…a bed 40 feet below the Old Croton Aqueduct conduit. 42 Sign Current Designation(s) TITICUS DAM 1890-1895 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct The Titicus Dam stretches 1,519 feet. The masonry portion, including the spillway, is 732 feet…

…The sand and rock within the coffer dam will then be excavated to the proper level of founda- tion of the masonry ; in the progress of which the bottom of the coffer, below the frame, will require to be secured…

…the dam. This stream enters the Hudson River about two miles below Tarrytown. The distance from the mouth of the stream to the line of Aqueduct is only a quarter of a mile. Plate XVI. is a view of the…

…ley, which is about 35 miles from the Croton dam. This valley is four fifths of a mile wide where the Aqueduct meets it, and the depression is 102 feet below the plane of Aqueduct grade. Here was an opportunity…

…Tower, View above the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct, 1843 Engraved by William James Bennett; 5V2X 10 V2 Inches (Image) Ossining Historical Society Museum Fayette B. Tower, View below the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton…

…the arch to a series of brick arches just below the line of the Aqueduct. Thus, any water leaking from the Aqueduct would pass into the void area and exit from the masonry work before it could do any dam…