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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Water Company, daily distribution, 1,200,000 gallons; South 

 Shore Water Company, daily distribution, 100,000 gallons; total 

 daily distribution in Richmond borough by private companies, 

 5,110,000 gallons. The total daily distribution by private com- 

 panies for the entire City of Greater New York is roundly 

 20,000,000 gallons. 



An aggregate of 318,500,000 gallons of water is delivered daily 

 in Greater New York by the Municipal Waterworks. There is 

 distributed by gravity alone 201,500.000 gallons, and the balance 

 of 114,000,000 gallons is pumped for the supply of the different 

 boroughs as follows : 



Gallons 



Manhattan borough 13,952,400 



Bronx borough 130,000 



Brooklyn borough 05,907,000 



Queens borough 3,891,300 



Richmond borough 1 80,000 



Storage on Croton River 



On a previous page the discharge measurements of Croton 

 river have been given, together with brief references to a consider- 

 able storage on that stream. When the new Croton dam, now 

 building, is completed, practical utilization of a catchment area 

 of 360 square miles will be made. In order to accomplish this 

 several masonry dams have been constructed, which are not ex- 

 ceeded for solidity and strength by those constructed anywhere. 

 The new Croton dam, from its great higlit, is a specially inter- 

 esting example. 



In 1883 an Aqueduct Commission was authorized, consisting of 

 the Mayor, Comptroller, and Commissioner of Public Works, as 

 ex officio members, together with three citizens. This commis- 

 sion was to construct new works only, and entered upon its duties 

 of constructing a new aqueduct and storage reservoirs at once. 



The construction of a new aqueduct was begun in January, 

 1885. This aqueduct was divided from Croton lake to Central 

 park into seventeen sections, each being awarded as a separate 



*The preceding statistics are of the year 1000, as collected by the late 

 Lebbeus B. Ward, and given in bis report on the Pumping stations Con- 

 nected with the Water Supply of New York, made to the Merchants' 

 Association. 



