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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The plant of the Long Island Water Company was built in 

 1881, under a 25-year franchise, to supply the town of Xew Lots, 

 which was annexed to Brooklyn in 1886. 



The Flatbush Water Company was built in 1882 and incorpo- 

 rated for 50 years. The works are located near the intersection 

 of New York avenue and Avenue E. They were intended to supply 

 the whole town of Flatbush, which is now the twenty-ninth ward 

 of Brooklyn. 



The Xew Utrecht Water Works were formerly controlled by the 

 Coney Island Water Works Company, changed later to the Kings 

 County Water Company, and still later to the Xew Utrecht Water 

 Company. The plant is located on the corner of East Fourteenth 

 street and Avenue Y, and was built in 1880. 



The town of Gravesend constructed a driven -well plant in order 

 to provide water for flushing sewers and for furnishing a public 

 water supply in 1891 and 1892. The plant is located on Seven- 

 teenth street, between Avenues R and S. 



The town of Gravesend was annexed to the city of Brooklyn 

 in June, 1895, and in July the mayor appointed commissioners 

 to appraise the value of the Gravesend Water Works. This com- 

 mission reported in November, recommending a payment of 

 .$423,000, although the plant, by the testimony, was shown to be 

 worth not more than $125,000. 



The West Brooklyn Water Company was organized with a 

 capital stock of $50,000. It supplies that section of Brooklyn 

 bounded by Forty-first street, Xew Utrecht and' Hamilton avenues, 

 Fifty-seventh street and Fifteenth avenue. 



In 1893 the supply was found to be insufficient, and an S-foot 

 circular brick well was sunk to a depth of 65 feet, the water 

 rising in it to a depth of five feet. It is understood that this 

 plant is still in use as a private company. 



In 1890 the Blythebourne Water Company was incorporated 

 to furnish water in Blythebourne and vicinity. The original 

 plant was situated at Fifty-sixth street and Thirteenth avenue, 

 the supply being derived from two 7-inch wells, driven to a 

 depth of GO feet. Later a new plant was established at Seventy- 

 fourth street, near Eleventh avenue. This company supplies 

 Blythebourne, Bath Beach Junction, Bay Ridge Park and Lef- 

 fert's Park. Several of the foregoing plants arc no1 now con- 

 sidered ;i pari of Brooklyn borough water supply. 



