LAROEST AQUEDUCT IN THE WOULD.
Xi:\v Yohk City is building, at a cost of 161.000, dollars, a huge new water system, which will supply water to the ten million population that the city expects within 20 years. A great reservoir, 12 miles long, is being completed in the heart of the Catskills. To bring the water from the Ashokan reservoir ■to the city will require an aqueduct of larger diameter than most of the tunnels around New York. It will bo an underground channel' of concrete and steel, built to las-1 for ever, and to carry the water in continuous descent from the high level of 600 ft at Ashokan reservoir to 355 ft at Kensico, where is to be located a main storage reservoir for maintaining a very large store of water near the city, and delivering it to the filtration plant at Scursdale.— Broadway Magazine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13537, 7 September 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)
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