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…the first time in fourteen years water is flowing over the huge dam of the Croton Reservoir at the estimated rate of 2,000,000,000 gallons a day, the vast tide dropping to the Croton River, 150 feet below…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The main stone dam is rubble masonry , faced on both sides , above the surface of the ground , with cut stone in regular courses . It is 297 feet high from the deepest point of the foundation , which is 131 feet below…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
View of Richmond, Virginia
A serene landscape drawing of a river scene with a sailboat and a rowboat, featuring buildings and trees along the shoreline, with a bridge in the distance.
Date: 1843
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Type: drawing…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.
P, A Sluice and Dam to raise a head of water to float Batteaus
to Fort Bull.
Q. A wood Dam made by a Prodigious number of trees thrown
there Promiscuously by Freshes
R. The Oswegagie Indian Path.
be 2…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are connected with the reservoir by three brick inlets , 10 feet…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are connected with the reservoir by three brick inlets , 10 feet…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are connected with the reservoir by three brick inlets , 10 feet…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are connected with the reservoir by three brick inlets , 10 feet…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are connected with the reservoir by three brick inlets , 10 feet…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are connected with the reservoir by three brick inlets , 10 feet…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…OF DAM , SHOWING CORE WALL REMOVED AND ITS DEFECTIVE LIME STONE FOUNDATION , WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE DAM . AK GATE HOUSE . CHAMBERS TO BE REMODELED AND REINFORCED in ordinary cases , where the wall below the original…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…below any possible seams
in the formation. In this trench was built a
concrete core for the dam. The length of the
dam is 4,000 feet and the maximum fill is
sixty-five feet. The top oi the dam…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…OF DAM , SHOWING CORE WALL REMOVED AND ITS DEFECTIVE LIME STONE FOUNDATION , WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE DAM . AK GATE HOUSE . CHAMBERS TO BE REMODELED AND REINFORCED in ordinary cases , where the wall below the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…OF DAM , SHOWING CORE WALL REMOVED AND ITS DEFECTIVE LIME STONE FOUNDATION , WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE DAM . AK GATE HOUSE . CHAMBERS TO BE REMODELED AND REINFORCED in ordinary cases , where the wall below the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…OF DAM , SHOWING CORE WALL REMOVED AND ITS DEFECTIVE LIME STONE FOUNDATION , WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE DAM . AK GATE HOUSE . CHAMBERS TO BE REMODELED AND REINFORCED in ordinary cases , where the wall below the original…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…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,
;
was…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…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…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…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 comparatively small, the constant repetition of the operation, by the hundreds…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
…A rainbow is visible in the mist below the main waterfall. In the foreground, people are standing on a path overlooking the falls.
Date: 1843
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Type: lithograph
Subjects: waterfalls, rainbow, trees, people
Source: NYPL, Illustrations…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…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…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…below any possible seams
in the formation. In this trench was built a
concrete core for the dam. The length of the
dam is 4,000 feet and the maximum fill is
sixty-five feet. The top oi the dam…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The
sand and rock within the coffer dam will then be excavated to the proper level of foundation of the masonry ;
in the progress of which the bottom of the coffer, below the frame,
will require to be secured by…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…