…Rejecting the Bronx River as yielding an inadequate supply, the Commissioners proposed tap- ping the Croton watershed. The estimated cost for a dam across the Croton River, the aqueduct, and reservoirs was $4,150,000, with an additional $1,262…

…On the other side is the Queen of Cities, calling attention to a picture, representing the Dam at the Croton River, the origin of the aqueduct. On the lower part of the border, surrounding the picture, are emblazoned the arms…

…Jervis, that he suggested as a temporary expedient, the laying down pipes along the coffer dam in the river, through which the Croton water might be conducted to the New York shore. The Commissioners repeat this suggestion without expressing an…

…supply of the Croton water, is a consideration worthy of at- tention. 7th. 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…

…French & Hastie, by means of a boat floating through the aqueduct, between the Croton Dam and Harlem River. Some unimportant defects were discovered inside the aqueduct, a short time before the water was shut off, and two small leaks ap…

…Between the Croton Dam and the influent gate-house at Harlem River, the line of aqueduct was finished last season, and during the present season this gate-house has been nearly completed. The embankment in the Harlem River, which serves…

…This completed the contracts, from the dam at the Croton to the distributing reser- voir, a distance of about 41 miles, and all the work was to be finished in 1841. The opposition, however, to the syphon bridge over the…

…The whole length of aqueduct now under contract, extending from the Croton to the Harlem River, is THIRTY-THREE MILES. Owing to a turn-out for wages early in the season, the work on the line between the dam and…

…From the vicin- ity of Fort Lee, Piermont, Croton, Poughkeepsie, and many another favour able, point, they range themselves " in order serviceable ' ' and wait the advent of the van- guard of that unnumbered host that about the ist of April…

…In 1694 there belonged to the city of New Amster- dam sixty ships, twenty-five sloops, and forty boats. But neither then nor at any time in its history did the number of sail owned on the island begin to…

…In April, of next year, the Committee, consisting of Stephen Allen, Judah Hammond, CROTON AGlUEDUOT. H. I. Wyckoff, and H. Mead, reported that they, in company with Mr. Carrol, who had examined the Rye pond and the Bronx river, at…

…In relation to the time required for the completion, I think five years as little, as should be calculated for the bridge ; while the tunnel, if successful in putting down the coffer dam, may be completed in four years. It…

…The water has usually flowed at the depth of two and a quarter feet in the aqueduct, but has been as- high as three and a half feet, and between the Croton Dam and Sing Sing waste wier (nearly 8…

…Foundation and Protection Wall — The foundation wall now laid, amounts CROTON AQ.UEDUCT. 175 to 115,210 cubic yards, and the protection wall to 114,384, making a total of 229,594 cubic yards of dry wall, which shows an…

…The story of the lake began when the City of Brooklyn enlarged the old mill dam on Massapequa Creek to create the Massapequa Reservoir in 1890. A conduit connected the reservoir to the Brooklyn Waterworks pumping station four miles farther…

…Completed by the City of New York in 1905, the Muscoot Reservoir collects all waters flowing from upper Croton Valley waterways behind its dam. Muscoot Farm, located above the present-day high-water mark where the Muscoot River flows into…

…Whritenour (in Boyd Wickecheoke Creek flows from its headwaters in the hills west of 2005:443) suggests the translation “a lot of fish,” from the Munsee the Borough of Flemington south through the hamlets of Croton words tohpi, “a lot…