Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-19
ASK S161,857,0O0
FOR MORE WATER
NEW YORK NEEDS eoo,ooo,ooc
GALLONS DAILY
Mayors Commission Purposes to CON-
struct Reservoirs, Dams and Aque-
ducts Sufficient to Serve for the
Next Fifty Years

Special to The Herald
NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-Plans for in
creasing the future water supply of
New York city were yesterday submit
ted to the board of estimates by the
special commission on water supply,
named by Mayor Mcclellan last June,
which consists of Charles N. Chadwick,
j. Edward Simmons and Charles A.
Shaw.
The report contemplates improve
ments to cost $161, ,S57, 900 and increased
facilities sufficient to protect the city
against water famine for the next
fifty years. When the report has been
acted upon by the board of estimate
it will be submitted to the state water
commission. which has the power to
adopt or reject the projected improve
ments in whole or in part.
The improvements mapped out will
add 250000, 900 gallons daily to the pres
ent water supply and include the erec-
ton of great reservoir and aqueduct
capable of developing an ultimate sup
ply of 500, 100000 gallons. A filtration
plant is to be included
Provision for all boroughs and for a
normal increase of population until
1926 is made. Summarized, these are
the improvements: A terminal rs-
tributing reservoir near Yonkers, a
large storage reservoir at Kensico,
capable of supplying the city with
00,000,000 gallons daily for fifty days
in case of damage to the proposed
aqueduct; a conduit sufficient to de-
liver 0O,000,0OO gallons daily to Brook
lyn, and pipe line to deliver 10000, 900
gallons daily to Richmond Borough,
which is III miles from the head of the
proposed aqueduct. A complete de-
veopment of all the water sheds to be
reached, it is estimated, will ultimately
give to New York city 100000, 900 gal
Ions daily.
Concerning the project to reach out
into the Catskill mountains for water,
the commission in letter to Mayor
Mcclellan says: Finding itself neces-
sarily limited as to territory for water
supply by the act of the Legislature,
which eliminates Suffolk county and
certain other watersheds recommended
by the Burr Hering-Free commits
sion the board has held itself to a
strict accountability in this matter and
has definitely directed it's efforts in ac-
cordance with these restrictions. This
necessitated a change of the plan for
taking water from the Catskill noun
tf4ins by changing the location of the
aqueduct line by raising the flow line
of the Ashokan reservoir to about six
hundred feet above tide level, thereby
so increasing the storage capacity AS
to involve ct earlier date than pre-
viously proposed the construction of "a
long tunnel to tap the Schoarie source
by the addition of series of storage
reservoirs In these localities. By these
means a daily supply of from 100000
900 to 5000 900 gallons will be obtained
even in years of smallest rainfall"
1t is recommended that steps be
taken to procure from the Long Island
watershed in anticipation of the sup
ply from the north sufficient water to
make good the serious deficiency now
existing.
The commission urges prompt action
by the board of estimate that the plans
may be passed upon by the state COM
mission and work begun without un-
necessary delay. Little new territory
outside of the Croton district is to be
taken in under the proposed plan.