The New York City water supply system is a combination of aqueducts, reservoirs, and tunnels which supplies fresh water to New York City. With three major water systems stretching up to 125 miles away
High Bridge in 1849, part of the Old Croton Aqueduct, the city's first water supply system
A 1798 watercolor of Collect Pond. Bayard's Mount, a 110-foot (34 m) hillock, is in the left foreground. Prior to being levelled around 1811 it was located near the current intersection of Mott and Grand Streets. New York City, which then extended to a stockade which ran approximately north–southeast from today's Chambers Street and Broadway, is visible beyond the southern shore.
Water sampling station located on a sidewalk in Manhattan
New Croton Aqueduct
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The New Croton Aqueduct is an aqueduct in the New York City water supply system, carrying the waters of the Croton Watershed from the New Croton Dam in Westchester County, New York, to the Jerome Park
New York City water supply system
…water supply system is a combination of aqueducts, reservoirs, and tunnels which supplies fresh water to New York City. With three major water systems (Croton, Catskill, and Delaware) stretching up to 125 miles (201 km) away to the north, the city's water supply system is one of the most extensive municipal…
The engraving from Scientific American in 1887 that shows the New Croton Aqueduct in solid line comparing to the Old Croton Aqueduct in dotted line, looking south from Putnam County with Manhattan on the far side.
Distinctive New York City Watershed building in Yonkers for shaft of New Croton Aqueduct