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Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309679702
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billion gallons. The city's Watershed Protection Program is intended to maintain and enhance the high quality of these surface water sources. Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program assesses the efficacy and future of New York City's watershed management activities. The report identifies program areas that may require future change or action, including continued efforts to address turbidity and responding to changes in reservoir water quality as a result of climate change.

Empire of Water

Author : David Soll
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080146806X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Water written by David Soll and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309172683
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-02-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Liquid Assets

Author : Diane Galusha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930098435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Assets written by Diane Galusha and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Catskill Water Supply of New York City

Author : Lazarus White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catskill Water Supply of New York City written by Lazarus White and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Mountains

Author : David Stradling
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989890
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Making Mountains written by David Stradling and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.

Water-works

Author : Kevin Bone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Water-works written by Kevin Bone and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Catskill Water Supply of New York City

Author : Lazarus White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Catskill Water Supply

Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Water Supply
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catskill Water Supply written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Water Supply and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Catskill Aqueduct and Earlier Water Supplies of the City of New York

Author : Edward Hagaman Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Catskill Aqueduct and Earlier Water Supplies of the City of New York written by Edward Hagaman Hall and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York, a General Description

Author : New York (N.Y.). Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York, a General Description by : New York (N.Y.). Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity

Download or read book The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York, a General Description written by New York (N.Y.). Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Water-supply Paper

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water-supply Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geological Survey Water-supply Paper

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Geological Survey Water-supply Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World Almanac and Book of Facts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The World Almanac and Book of Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.

Greater New York

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book Greater New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Review of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Operations Support Tool for Water Supply

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309482798
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Review of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Operations Support Tool for Water Supply written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's water supply system is one of the oldest, largest, and most complex in the nation. It delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons of water each day from three upstate watersheds (Croton, Catskill, and Delaware) to meet the needs of more than eight million people in the City, one million people in Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Ulster counties, and millions of commuters and tourists who visit the City throughout the year. The Catskill and Delaware portions, which make up about 90 percent of the supply, receive no filtration or treatment other than disinfection, except for rare instances of high turbidity when a coagulant is added to increase deposition of suspended solids. The remaining 10 percent of the supply comes from the Croton watershed and receives treatment via filtration. The drinking water supply is managed by the Bureau of Water Supply within the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP). To continue to avoid filtration of the Catskill/Delaware portion of the water supply, in 2007, NYC DEP reexamined its control of turbidity in the Catskill portion of the water supply, including both structural improvements to the system and operational changes. The Operations Support Tool (OST) was developed as part of these efforts. OST couples models of reservoir operations and water quality; it uses real-time data on streamflow, snow pack, water quality, reservoir levels, diversions, and releases; and it incorporates streamflow forecastsâ€"all in order to predict future reservoir levels, water delivery to customers, and water quality within the system. These predictions inform the system operators, who then make decisions based on the most current data and forecasts. This report reviews the use of OST in current and future reservoir operations. It considers potential ways in which the City can more effectively use OST, makes recommendations for additional performance measures, and reviews the potential effects of climate change on the City's water supply to help identify and enhance understanding of areas of potential future concern with regard to the use of OST.

Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309067774
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-17 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.