The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-01

the catskill Greek. collecting the wa
ter from fourteen watersheds. A web
OF smaller streams contributes It's share.
and the drainage area extends north
one hundred and thirty miles from New
York City and west to the watershed
OF the Hudson.
Across this glorious country OF hill
and valley, forest and stream. the hun
dreds OF engineers and rodmen are
working out the plans with the energy
that comes from the brisk mountain
air of the region. The area covered is
about 904 square miles OF the eastern
part Of the Catskill country. The study
began with careful observation of
the rainfall and the volume OF the
streams by special corps OF engineers.
Rain gauges and weirs were set up,
and at them constantly delicate meas
urements are being made. The meteor
ology and geology of the country are
being studied as infinitely as the most
delicate recording Instruments and
most powerful microscopes permit.
Winston's Big Job.
Having gathered the water Of q
thousand hills. huge storage reser
voir is necessary. This is the great
Ashokan Reservoir, nearly ninety miles
from New York. the greatest single
which the Hudson siphon is close
second. This reservoir (the natives call
IL Shokan) is to be a lake in itself
twelve miles long and from one to four
miles wide. The water is to be con-
fined by two huge dams OF masonry,
one two hundred and twenty feet high,
and by three smaller dykes OF earth.
The greatest care is being taken to
fix sites of these walls, for should
they be laid upon a faulty stratum or
porous bed the enormous pressure of
the water might some day burst Its
barriers and cause disaster that would
pale the Joflnstown flood
The building of this wonderful dam
and tremendous reservoir is the work
that Messrs. Winston & Co. Of Rich
mond, and McArther Brothers, of Chi
cago. have contracted to do for s12,-
100000.
Wonderful AcIueduct.
Once started on its long Journey
southwark the water Will run under
hill and over dale by it's own gravity
through huge concrete aqueduct sew
enteen feet high and seventeen and a
half feet wide--large enough to drive
two tallyhos through all the way
down. Through the rocky hills of us
ter and Orange counties by tunnels.
across the valleys on embankments and
masonry bridges. 1t will self-reliantly
pursue it's journey Of eighty miles
southwark to the thirsty city. AT four
other points 1t will dip down and
siphon itself under gorges or streams
before 1t makes the great descent under
| the Hudson.
The system will be entirely separate
from the present Croton system. AT
Kensico VIII be q huge storage reser-
| voir capable of holding over forty bill
lion gallons and huge filtration plant
Another filtration plant. in addition to
| that already mentioned, is to be built
| Immediately for the Croton system at
Jerome Park. Only three hundred feet
| OF the six-hundred foot level at the
| start at Ashokan will be used up be-
fore the city line is reached. The pres
sure will therefore be great enough to
force water fourteen feet higher than
! the roof of the Flatiron Building.
Thus in brief is description of the
wonderful work that Richmond firm
is to figure in to a very conspicuous
/ extent.