NEW YORK’S WATER SUPPLY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 December 1926, Page 5

NEW YORK’S WATER SUPPLY.

BIG RESERVOIR ALMOST EMPTY. NEW YORK, Oct. 26. x New York City’s water supply is seriously threatened by subterranean cracks which arc slowly draining the £32,000,000 Ashokan reservoir in the Catskill Mountains, the New York Tribune says to-day. The reservoir is 16 miles long and throe miles wide, and is fed by a watershed of 257 square miles. A recent survey, it says, supports the theory that the millions of gallons from the huge basin are - seeping away through the veins and thence to the surface again in adjacent water courses. The reservoir, described as rivalling the Panama Canal- as an engineering feat, is virtually empty. There has been no lack of rain, however, and feed streams are flush from bank to bank. Esop’s Creek, the main source of supply, has been found to diminish its flow shortly after entering the great basin, only to rise a few miles below the dam to full power. It is stated to be delivering only a scant 200 million gallons daily compared with 450,000,000 gallons required for New York’s needs.