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TEN-MILE AND Housatonic RIVERS,
WALLKILL RIVER,
HUDSON RIVER ABOVE SALT-WATER INFLUENCE,
STREAMS IN THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS,
THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS,
THE GREAT Lakes, .
PART IV: SALT-WATER SUPPLY FOR FIRE EXTINGUISHING AND
PART V: APPENDICES: SPECIAL REPORTS TO THE ENGINEER-
ING COMMITTEE.
APPENDIX A: REPORT ON THE HISTORY, CONDITION AND
Needs of THE NEW YORK CITY WATER SUPPLY AND RE-
STRICTION OF Waste of WATER: BY J. JAMES R. CROES,
I. The Manhattan Water System,
II. The Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond Systems,
III. Extraordinary Consumption and Leakage, .
IV. Actual Consumption of Water,
103-152
108-116
Appended Plates I to VIII.
APPENDIX B: REPORT ON THE PUMPING STATIONS CON-
NECTED WITH THE WATER SUPPLY OF NEW YORK: BY L.
APPENDIX C: KEPORT ON THE USE AND WASTE OF WATER
IN NEW YORK CITY: BY FOSTER CROWELL,
I. Present Water Consumption in Manhattan and the
Bronx,
.
II. Legitimate Uses of a Public Water Supply as Applied
to New York,
III. The Quantities of Water Used in Various Cities and
the Reasonable Allowance for Actual and Neces-
sary Use in New York,
187-216
192-195
195-198
IV. The Waste of Water in New York in Comparison with
Other Cities,
198-203
V. Measurement of the New York Consumption of Water
by Gaugings of the Sewage Flow,
204-206
206-209
VI. Analysis of the Waste in New York: Conclusions
Regarding its Possible Prevention,
Appended Diagrams I to VII.
APPENDIX D: REPORT ON the Sources of WATER SUPPLY
SUITABLE FOR THE FUTURE USE OF THE CITY OF NEW
YORK: BY JAMES H. FUERTES,
I. Preliminary Considerations,
217-284
II. The Basin of the Lower Hudson,
224-226
III. Supply from the Adirondack Mountains,
226-227
IV. Quantity of Water that May be Secured in the Cats-
V. The Hudson River, Above the Influence of Salt-
Water, as a Source of Supply,
VI. Wallkill River as a Source of Supply, .
VII. Additional Supply from Long Island, .
VIII. The Staten Island Supply, .
APPENDIX E: REPORT ON A WATER SUPPLY FROM THE
ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK:
BY GEORGE W. RAFTER, .
I. Introductory,.
II. Schroon Valley Reservoir,
III. Injury to Water Power on Hudson River,
IV. Compensating Reservoirs, .
309-352
311-314
314-321
V. As to the Minimum Flow of the Hudson River,
VI. Supply from Lake George,
VII. Reservoir System for River Regulation Only,
330-332
APPENDIX F: REPORT ON AN AUXILIARY SALT-WATER
SUPPLY FOR Fire-Protection, Street-Washing, Sewer-
CLEANSING AND Other PurpoSES: BY FOSTER CROWELL, 353-434
I. General Conclusions and Recommendations,
II. Fire Pipe Lines in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Detroit,
Buffalo and Boston,
357-366
366-371
V. Proposed Sea-Water Pipe Line Service for New York,
VI. Possible Use of Sea-Water for Street-Washing and
382-396
IX. Possible Use of Salt-Water in Office Buildings and
Industrial Establishments,
X. Estimates of Cost, .
406-416
416-422
Appended Plates XXIV to XXVI.
IV. THE RATE OF WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOR UNDER CON-
TRACT FOR AN ADDITIONAL SUPPLY,
V.
VI.
THE PROPOSED ADIRONDACK COMPENSATING RESERVOIRS,
THE LIMITATION OF MUNICIPAL INDebtedness for WATER
AND THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO
ABOLISH IT,
443
444
PART II: OPINIONS.
Opinions: To Engineering Committee.
I. RELATIONS OF BOROUGH OF RICHMOND TO EAST JERSEY
WATER CO.,
II. POWER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO DIvert the
WATERS OF THE RAMAPO RIVER,
III. POWER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO DIVERT THE
WATERS OF THE HOUSATONIC RIVER,
IV. POWER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO DIVERT THE
WATERS OF THE TEN-MILE River,
V. RIGHT TO DIVERT STORM WATERS,
VI. ACQUISITION OF SOURCES OF WATER SUPPLY IN SUF-
FOLK COUNTY,
451-454
452-456
453-456
Opinions: To the Engineering Committee:
I. RIGHTS OF OYSTER GROWERS TO FRESH WATERS FALLING
INTO THE SEA,
II. RIGHT OF CITY OF NEW YORK TO Construct an Aqueduct
Through the State of New Jersey,
PAGE
467
III. EXEMPTION OF WATER-SUPPLY BONDS FROM THE DEBT LIMIT, 468
IV. POWER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO ACQUIRE WATER
RIGHTS NOW HELD BY CORPORATIONS OR PRIVATE PAR-
TIES,
469
Opinions: To the Executive Committee.
I. WOULD A SALT-WATER FIRE-PIPE SYSTEM BE UNDER CON-
TROL OF WATER OR FIRE DEPARTMENT?
:
II. WOULD PRESENT LABOR LAW APPLY TO WORk Done for or
BY THE CITY OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS?
Opinion: To the Executive Committee.
I. OBLIGATION OF THE CITY TO ACCEPT WATER UNDER RAM-
470
471
I. CONTROL OF WATERS FLOWING FROM NEW JERSEY INTO
NEW YORK, .
II. ACQUIREMent of Land in New Jersey, .
III. CONTROL OF DRAINAGE BASIN IN NEW JERSEY,
I. COMPENSAting ReservOIRS AS A MEANS OF AVOIDING PAY-
ment of Damages to Lower Riparian Owners,