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In addition to the projects herein discussed at length, at various 

 times during the last few years projects have been considered for 

 reservoirs on the following streams : 



Mahwah river, diverting the water at Suffern, where there is a 

 catchment area of 20 square miles ; Popolepen creek, diverting the 

 water at Fort Montgomery, where there is a catchment area of 

 28 square miles ; Big Moodna creek, diverting the water at Salis- 

 bury Mills, where there is a catchment area of 123 square miles ; 

 Little Moodna creek, diverting the water at Woodbury Falls, 

 where there is a catchment area of 11 square miles; Shawangunk 

 creek, diverting the water at Bloomingsburg, where there is a 

 catchment area of 47 square miles; Bondout creek, diverting the 

 water at Ellenville, where there is a catchment area of 184 square 

 miles; the Basher kill, diverting the water at Port Orange; Never- 

 sink creek, diverting the water at Quarryville, where there is a 

 catchment area of 200 square miles; the Delaware, diverting the 

 water above Port Jervis, where there is a catchment of 3600 square 

 miles. None of these projects has passed more than the prelim- 

 inary stage. 



The Neio York Water Supply Commission of 1903. In the fall of 

 1902 the Mayor of New York appointed William H. Burr, Rudolph 

 Hering and John R. Freeman as a commission to consider the best 

 sources of an additional water supply for New York city. The 

 final report of this commission was submitted in December, 1903. 

 The outline for the plan of a new gravity supply is given in the 

 following abstract of the report, as taken from Engineering News 

 for December 24, 1903 : 



The commission favors taking a first installment of 00,000,000 

 gallons from the Fishkill watershed, but developing concurrently 

 the supply from Esopus creek. These two sources would give 

 nearly 320.000,000 gallons per day. Another 100,000,000 gallons 

 per day may be secured from Rondout creek without great addi- 

 tional expense, making a total supply of nearly 420.000,000. The 

 final 80,000,000 gallons or more may be obtained from Wappinger 

 creek by means of a large reservoir at Hibernia, within the catch- 

 ment area of that creek, thus completing the amount of 500,000,000 

 gallons per day. If it should be desired, a further large supply 

 can be obtained from the upper watershed of the Jansen kill, on 

 the easterly side of the Hudson, and from the upper waters of 

 Schoharie creek, diverted into the watershed of the Esopus creek, 

 and from Catskill creek. 



