Long Island Sources: Reports, Resolutions, Authorizations, Surveys and Designs Showing Sources and Manner of Obtaining from Suffolk County, Long Island, an Additional Supply of Water for the City of New York ... |
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20 per cent 50 million gallons aqueduct average Board of Estimate Board of Water Brooklyn borough BROOKLYN WATER capacity catchment area chlorine coarse 20 coarse and medium Coarse gravel coarse sand conduit construction cost County watersheds deep Department of Water depth driven-well stations ELEVATION Estimate and Apportionment feet gallons per day gray clay gray sand ground water ground-water infiltration gallery light yellow lignite LONG ISLAND SOURCES low rainfall Massapequa medium 60 medium sand mica Millburn million gallons daily Nassau county Patchogue peat Peconic river Peconic valley pipe plan and profile ponds proposed Suffolk County pumping pumping-station pyrites Quogue reservoir Ridgewood Reservoir Ridgewood system river salt water sands and gravels Sheet southern Suffolk county square miles storage strata Suffolk County waters superfine surface streams surface-waters tion traces of clay Wantagh water bearing water-table watershed western Long Island White and light yellow gravel yellow sand York City
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Page 52 - ... of the department of water supply, gas and electricity of the city of New York...
Page 52 - ... by a plan or scheme to determine and provide for the payment of the proper compensation for any and all damages to persons or property, whether direct or indirect, which will result from the acquiring of said lands and the execution of said plans.
Page 43 - York; and for the acquisition of lands or interest therein, and for the construction of the necessary reservoirs, dams, aqueducts, filters, and other appurtenances for that purpose; and for the appointment of a commission with the powers and duties necessary and proper to attain these objects...
Page 45 - The Mayor, the Comptroller, the President of the Board of Aldermen and the Presidents of the Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Richmond —16.
Page 52 - That said plans are just and equitable to the other municipalities and civil divisions of the State affected thereby and to the inhabitants thereof, particular consideration being given to their present and future necessities for sources of water supply.
Page 46 - It shall be the duty of the board of water supply of the city of New York to...
Page 43 - Board of Water Supply of the City of New York. Map and profile showing manner of obtaining from Suffolk county an additional supply of water for the city of New York...
Page 50 - ... give reasonable public notice of such hearing whereat testimony may be produced by the parties appearing in such manner as the board of estimate and apportionment may determine...
Page 49 - Orange, and to the President of the Board of Aldermen of The City of New York, and to the City Clerk of The City of New York, for the counties of New York, Kings.
Page 54 - December, in the year 1909, before me personally came PJ Scully, with whom I am personally acquainted, and who is known to me to be the City Clerk of The City of New York, who being by me duly sworn did depose and say: I reside in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. I am City Clerk of The City of New York, the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing petition.