…the name of a creek, a dam, a lake, a wildlife management area, and Musconetcong Mountain (see below). The small streams join tomuch else in central New Jersey. The 23-mile-long main branch of gether just below the hamlet…

…Seymour proposes to erect a permanent dam in the Hudson river, extending from this city, at or near the site of the old State Prison, at the foot of Amos-street, to the Jersey shore, so as to elevate the…

…At the place where it was determined to build the dam across the Croton River, the surface of the natural flow of water was about 38 feet below the elevation required as a head for the water to flow into…

…The course of the aqueduct passes along the valley of the Croton to near its mouth, and thence passes into the valley of the Hudson. At 8 miles from the Croton dam, it reaches the village of Sing Sing, and…

…Old Croton Dam: Completed by John B. Jervis in 1842, but later submerged underwater after the construction of the New Croton Dam in 1905; Now located about thirty feet below the water's surface in the new dam. P Panic…

…The Great Fire of 1835 and the cholera epidemic of 1832 (a victim of whom is illustrated below) were two of the most catastrophic instances of these periodic phenomena; occurring on the eve of the construction of the Croton system…

…From these reasons, then, it is obvious, that by building a dam five feet high across the Bronx, and below where the first mentioned spring empties itself into, and by digging a canal four hundred yards in length, through the…

…identified with the 32-mile-long river whose headwaters rise above Lake Wallenpaupack (see below). The Wallenpaupack Branch of the Lackawaxen River flowed unhindered above the village of Hawley before the most recent enlargement of the dam creating present-day…

…Also known as the Downsville Reservoir and Dam, the 15-mile-long Pepacton impoundment is the largest in the New York City Water System. Pepacton water destined for the city is drawn by gravity into the 26mile-long East Delaware…

…Grumet 13 below) several miles behind the hamlet, Kerhonkson Creek flows into and through the community reservoir before falling into the Rondout Creek a few miles farther on. The name was first mentioned in the minutes of the October 7…

…The original community of Amawalk now lies beneath the waters impounded by the Amawalk Dam built across the Muscoot River (see below) in 1897 as part of New York City’s Croton Reservoir system. Amawalk was probably the location of…

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…of the hill against which the masonry of the dam is built, a distance of over 200 feet. This tunnel descends into the Reservoir, so that the centre of it at the mouth is about 12 feet below the sur…

…Like the railroad, the construction of the Croton and New Croton Dams and the New Croton Aqueduct played an important role in shaping Croton-on-Hudson’s development. Construction began on the Croton Dam in 1837 after several water crises…

…The space between the exterior and interior walls, at 41 feet below the top, is 14 feet, or 24 feet from the outside of exterior to inside of interior walls ; and the space between them at the spring of connecting…

…Culvert, ------ 90 Tunnel and Gate Chamber at the head of the Aqueduct, - - 92 View above the Croton Dam, ------ 95 Entablature over the entrance to the Aqueduct, - 96 View below the Croton Dam, ------ 98 Croton Aqueduct at Sing-Sing, - - - - - 101 Aqueduct…

miles from the Croton Dam. This valley is 1900 feet across, and the Aqueduct is supported upon a foundation wall of dry stone work having the face laid in mortar, except over three streets where bridges are built, having an…

…It is presumed that the mason work of the dam, will derive additional strength from the extension of the time of its construction. The remaining part of the aqueduct proper, in Westchester, being the second, third, and part of the…

…The original community of Amawalk now lies beneath the waters impounded by the Amawalk Dam built across the Muscoot River (see below) in 1897 as part of New York City’s Croton Reservoir system. Amawalk was

…Also known as the Downsville Reservoir and Dam, the 15-mile-long Pepacton impoundment is the largest in the New York City Water System. Pepacton water destined for the city is drawn by gravity into the 26mile-long East Delaware…

…Farley figure 15, below: Robert Havell. Jr., View of Croton Dam. engraved by Henry Jordan & Frederick Halpin, frontispiece from Charles King's A Memoir of the Construction, Costs and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct .... New York. 1843 The Hudson River…

completed in 1890 and the New Croton Dam, designed to meet the ever-increasing demands for fresh water from New York City, was completed in 1907 after 15 years of construction. Construction of New Croton Dam, 1901 Source: History of…

…Both the Fort Namanock archaeological site and Namanock Island presently are located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area established after the dam project was cancelled. The hamlet of Normanook, located several miles southeast of Namanock Island in the…

…Farley Kemp Inverted siphons As indicated, it is possible to carry an aqueduct below the hydraulic grade line, which is the free surface of the water, diverting it Into pipes which can descend into valleys and rise on the other…

…The somewhat more distant Ciscascata (see Syosset below) is the only other Indian place name resembling Success in colonial records in the area. The shores of Lake Success briefly served as the temporary headquarters of the United Nations between 1946…

…Steinberg, "Dam Breaking in the 19th Century Merrimack Valley: Water, Social Conflict, and the Waltham Valley," The Journal of Social History v.24 (Fall 1990). #1, 31. The argument is more fully developed in Steinberg's Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and…

…Another place called Aesopecka was noted as the deep rocky gorge below the reservoir barrage. From there, the creek meanders across the broad flats where the Late Woodland ancestors of the historic Esopus Indians located many of their settlements. Passing…

…The 24-mile-long Saugatuck River rises at Umpawaug Pond (see below). From there, it flows south past the Saugatuck Falls Natural Area into the Saugatuck Reservoir built in 1938. The river below the dam flows past the Saugatuck neighborhood…

…The more Delaware-like present-day form of the spelling adopted by the builder of the dam that flooded a stretch of marshlands known as Fever Cot or Pine Swamp suggests that he drew the name from Ruttenber’s (1906a…

…If the river should ever be made navigable, by the removal of the mills at Kings- bridge, and of the obstruction of the dam at Macomb's Bridge, the facility afforded by the low bridge, of an archway of 80…