New-York tribune., 1900-08-26

After skirting the Catskin Mountains for few
miles it follows the range of hills on the west
bank Of the Hudson to Roseton, where it crosses
the river through a castron. concrete lined
tunnel to Low Point Station. a few miles below
Poughkeepse. Then it runs over rolling land to
the base of the FishkiII Mountains which are
pierced by a tunnel. After running down Glove
Greek Valley, it crosses the CToton River just
below the Cornell Dam site. and comes on into
the city by a succession of pipe lines and tun-
nels, passing through the villages of CIaremont
and Spring Valley.
If so great a volume of water is taken at
Tumblehead Falls a great deal of water power
would be destroyed Estimates of the cost of
this project allow 100000 for compensation of
such losses in the Adirondacks and So 800 900
for damage to such powers below HadIey on the
Hudson. The cost of the lone aqueduct figur-
ing labor at 81 per diem would be over S92 OOO-
600. Storage and distributing reservoirs would
cost $lOOO0OO0 more The annual cost Of opera
ton would be $3.650,OO0. and the water, filtered
and delivered into the reservoir at New-York.
would cost $40 per 100000 gallons.
The CatsEilI Mountains might be drawn on
for a similar amount according to the report
and at considerably less cost TO the city The
plan proposes to take 1O0OO0.OO0 gallons daily
from CatskiH Creek and $50 OO0OOO from Esopus
Creek The pipe line from Kingston to New
York would follow the same route as mentioned
in the Adirondack project At d point eighty
miles from New-YOrk the aqueduct divides and
proceeds TO the two creeks The damage I'd
water powers by this abstraction OF water is
estimated at $150O00O, or $3.50 per horse power
The aqueduct would cost 500 100000 and the
two reservoirs nearly $210O0O0O. The annual
cost Of operation and maintenance would be
S26sGO0O and the cost per 100000 gallons of
a fer Irslr.a 4 I.Tsr~
500 A
The third estimate contempIates taking 25O-
OOUOOo gallons daily from the Hudson River
above Poughkeepsie. fItering the water and
conducting it through an aqueduct sixty-three
miles in length to a big covered reservoir ad-
joining the Jerome Park Reservoir The water
IS to be taken into a forebay from point two
niles above Poughkeepsie and lifted by high
pressure pumps into settling basin 1t would
reach the aqueduct after passing through filters
by gravity. The entire cost of this project is
estimated at S50,319,000, with labor at So per
day; annual cost of maintenance, s.. .9SS, ,357 and
cost per lOOOOOo gallons for water filtered and
delivered $32 II.
The Waikiki River is the fourth possible
source considered in the report The project
contemPIates the building of a dam across the
Waikiki at PhiIlipsburg, and flooding a suf-
ficient of bottom land TO give a storage
capacity of 250OO0G00 gallons OF water The
water so collected is to pass through slow sand
filters and reach New-York through an aque-
duct thirty-eight miles in length, which would
be mostly in tunnel The line crosses the Hud-
son River just north Of the New-Jersey-New-
York line. The water at that point is fifty feet
deep, and it is proposed to take the water
across the river in castron pipes to be laid
by divers instead Of in tunnel, as contemplated
for the Adirondack and Catskiu aqueducts. The
land used in the storage basin will not cost
more than S40O0O0O and the water powers in
jured by the abstraction could be compensated
for with half that sum. The total cost of con-
structiOn is estimated at $40 421 900; annual
cost of operation, $1.S19 600; cost per million
gallons for water filtered and delivered, SO 94.
At any rate, New-York will have plenty Of
water for years to come. and if future genera
tions are willing to spend their money they can
draw sparkling drops from the Adirondacks
or the Catskills from faucets in their own