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Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
Author | : National Research Council,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Management Strategy |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2000-02-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780309172684 |
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In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City's watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution sources, advances in treatment technologies, and natural variations in watershed conditions. The book recommends that New York City place its highest priority on pathogenic microorganisms in the watershed and direct its resources toward improving methods for detecting pathogens, understanding pathogen transport and fate, and demonstrating that best management practices will remove pathogens. Other recommendations, which are broadly applicable to surface water supplies across the country, target buffer zones, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.
Empire of Water
Author | : David Soll |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801468070 |
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Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water system in 1842, it began to expand the network, eventually reaching far into the Catskill Mountains, more than one hundred miles from the city. Empire of Water explores the history of New York City's water system from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, focusing on the geographical, environmental, and political repercussions of the city's search for more water. Soll vividly recounts the profound environmental implications for both city and countryside. Some of the region's most prominent landmarks, such as the High Bridge across the Harlem River, Central Park's Great Lawn, and the Ashokan Reservoir in Ulster County, have their origins in the city's water system. By tracing the evolution of the city's water conservation efforts and watershed management regime, Soll reveals the tremendous shifts in environmental practices and consciousness that occurred during the twentieth century. Few episodes better capture the long-standing upstate-downstate divide in New York than the story of how mountain water came to flow from spigots in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Soll concludes by focusing on the landmark watershed protection agreement signed in 1997 between the city, watershed residents, environmental organizations, and the state and federal governments. After decades of rancor between the city and Catskill residents, the two sides set aside their differences to forge a new model of environmental stewardship. His account of this unlikely environmental success story offers a behind the scenes perspective on the nation's most ambitious and wide-ranging watershed protection program.
Water works
Author | : Kevin Bone,Gina Pollara,Albert F. Appleton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015067703739 |
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The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the story of the program of exploration and construction to achieve such purity. The story is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels.
Waterworks
Author | : Stanley Greenberg |
Publsiher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2003-03 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781568983882 |
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A collection of photographs which profile the aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, gatehouses, and tanks of New York's water system.
Liquid Assets
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Author | : Diane Galusha |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Water-supply |
ISBN | : 193009843X |
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"In Liquid Assets, author Diane Galusha traces for the first time between the covers of a single volume the development of the amazing water system that altered landscapes, transformed lives, and made possible New York's preeminence among the world's great cities."--Back cover.
The Water supply of the City of New York 1658 1895
Author | : Edward Wegmann |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : New York (City) |
ISBN | : UOM:39015021035566 |
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The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York
Author | : New York (N.Y.). Dept. of water supply, gas and electricity |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : CHI:087270212 |
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Annual Report of the Board of Water Supply of the City of New York
Author | : New York (N.Y.). Board of Water Supply |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : UOM:39015068125866 |
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Accompanied by Report of the Chief Engineer.