Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29

county, a lake is to be constructed more than four miles in length and averaging about half mile in width. It will be the storage reservoir for the immense volume of water that is poured down from the Catskill coun- ties.
 To build this big lake one entire town and part of another will have to be wiped out, while many farmers will have to give up their homes. But for the inconvenience which Westchester folks suffer they will be compensated many fold by having lake of great scenic beauty.
 Some idea of the immensity of this storage is afforded in the fact that 1t will be 30 miles around its shore line. That is a good deal further than a man would want to drive for pleasure on a Sunday afternoon. It will con- tain an island more than mile in length, and three beautiful peninsulas ranging from half mile to one mile III lcuSlu VIII Jul OuI AhIo ito Sly oloi body.
 This lake will be located in the Townships of Mount Pleasant. Har- rison and North Castle. It will begin at valhalla, where the present Kenis- co reservoir dam is located, and will extend north through valleys formed by an arm of the Bronx and the Bear gutter rivers.
 The new dam, which will be 1000 feet long at the top, will extend across the valley along the line of the road way. About 20 buildings in the lower part of Valhalla, including hotel, three or four small stores, the New York water supply station and several houses, will be wiped out What re- mains of the lower part of the village will lie just below the great dam.
 The new Kensico reservoir will be fed by an aqueduct I71s feet in height and almost as wide, which will extend 60 miles from the great collecting res. ervoir at Esopus. This aqueduct is larger than the single bore subway tunnel under the City Hall park. A man could almost drive a team of horses and furniture van through it. The above picture shows a cross sec tion of the aqueduct. It will be made mostly of cement and will be covered all the way down from Esopus.
 The aqueduct which will feed the Kensico reservoir will follow the west bank of the Hudson down to Storm King. Wherever it is possible the huge cement main will be laid in the side of the river bank. At Storm King the aqueduct will cross the Hudson.
 A shaft will be sunk on the west bank of the river. between 500 and 1000 feet deep. until solid rock is struck. Down this precipice the flood from the Catskills will plunge. then through horizontal tunnel under the river to the east bank. where it will rise again through a perpendicular shaft and continue on it's way toward the Westchester reservoir.
 Before it gets to the storage reser- voir 1t will take another plunge down into the bowels of the earth when it comes to the new Croton reservoir. The engineers will go down in this place until they strike rock. just the same as in the crossing of the Hud- son. Thus billions of gallons of water will go racing under other billions of gallons. all of which eventually will go to quench New YorkIs thirst and keep it clean.
 The present system now supplies the city with between 4OO. .OOO. 900 and 500.OO0. 900 gallons a day. The addi- tion of the Catskill system will more than double the supply.