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Monroe L. Weber-Shirk S chool of Civil and Environmental Engineering NYC Water Supply System Overview How does NYC get the water it needs? Or How big is.

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1 Monroe L. Weber-Shirk S chool of Civil and Environmental Engineering NYC Water Supply System Overview How does NYC get the water it needs? Or How big is NYC’s water footprint?

2 NYC Watersheds

3 Pepacton Schoharie Ashokan Neversink Roundout Cannonsville Catskill/Delaware Watersheds

4 Croton System

5 Ashokan Reservoir

6 Ashokan Fall 1999 Photo by Mike Szyszka, fall 1999

7 Schoharie Reservoir

8 Neversink Reservoir

9 West Branch Reservoir

10 Supply Aqueducts and Tunnels Shandaken Tunnel (1928) Catskill Aqueduct (1915) Delaware Aqueduct (1944) Neversink Tunnel (1950) East Delaware Tunnel (1954) West Delaware Tunnel (1967)

11 Delaware Aqueduct 10 km Rondout Reservoir West Branch Reservoir

12 City Tunnels

13 Jerome Park Reservoir

14 Drought Status

15 NYC Reservoirs  Where is the water?

16 Reflections  What are consequences of exporting water from the Upper Delaware River and the Hudson River Watershed to NYC?


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