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which this supply is drawn may be safely estimated to yield au 

 average of 17,000,000 gallons per day. 



In the Borough of Brooklyn there was no public water supply 

 until after the population had reached 200,000. In 1856 a plan 

 was matured for procuring water from ponds and streams on 

 the south side of Long Island and a company formed to construct 

 the works, but the city Took them in hand and constructed them, 

 and water was introduced in 1851). The original supply of surface 

 water has been supplemented by pumping the ground water from 

 driven wells along the line of the conduit which conveys the 

 water of the ponds to the city. 



The Flatbnsh Water Company furnishes water to the former 

 town of Flatbnsh, as well as to some adjacent property. The 

 Long Island Water Company has for years supplied an area of 

 1224 acres in East New York and the Blythebourne Water Com- 

 pany an area of 660 acres in the section near Fort Hamilton. The 

 district still unsnpplied with water in Brooklyn borough measures 

 about 21.500 acres, or 55 per cent of the total area of the 

 borough. 



The Borough of Queens has only a fragmentary supply obtained 

 from wells, which is pumped directly into the mains. Works 

 supplying 2770 acres are owned by the city, and others supplying 

 5000 acres are owned by private corporations. The area of the 

 borough is 79,347 acres. 



The Borough of Richmond, with an area of 36,600 acres, has 

 but a small supply of water for 3130 acres, which is derived from 

 wells. 1 



Aside from gravity conduits from the Crofon and Bronx catch 

 ments, the water supply of New York is pumped. This condition 

 is made necessary not only by the low elevation of the sources 

 of the Brooklyn water supply, all of which are near sea-level, 

 but further because <>f the existence of a high service area in the 

 central and northern portions of Manhattan which contain a large 

 and increasing population and which are above the level to which 

 Croton water can be distributed by gravity. There are also areas 



1 Abstracted from report on The History, Condition and Needs of the 

 \<w York Wat*']- Supply and Restriction of Waste of Water, made to the 

 Merchants' Association, by J. J. R. ('roes. 



