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The New York City Water Supply System provides one billion gallons of safe drinking water to New York City’s 8.5 million residents every day. The system also provides about 110 million gallons a day to one million people living in Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Ulster counties.
Oct 26, 2024 · Supplying clean water to over 8.5 million New Yorkers is a complex operation, relying on vast upstate reservoirs and thousands of miles of underground tunnel...
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Liverpool is a lakeside village in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,242. [2] The name was adopted from the city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. [3]
A combination of aqueducts, reservoirs, and tunnels supplies fresh water to New York City. With three major water systems (Croton, Catskill, and Delaware) stretching up to 125 miles (201 km) away from the city, its water supply system is one of the most extensive municipal water systems in the world.
- Catskill Aqueduct Repair and Rehabilitation
- Kensico-Eastview8connection
- Hillview Reservoir Improvements
- Ashokan Century Program
In 2018, NYC DEP began a $158 million, three-year project to rehabilitate the northern-most 74 miles of the Catskill Aqueduct (NYC DEP, 2018a). The work includes cleaning the entire length of conduit, repairing an estimated eight leaks in the system, replacing 36 valve chambers, and other structural and mechanical repairs as needed. The work includ...
NYC DEP is currently in the design phase of a $1.2 billion project that will include constructing a new 2-mile-long tunnel between Kensico Reservoir and the Catskill/Delaware UV disinfection facility. This new tunnel will provide additional conveyance of 2.6 BGD between Kensico Reservoir and the UV facility. The project also will include rehabilita...
Also in the Consent Decree that NYC DEP entered on March 18, 2019 is the requirement to complete Hillview Reservoir improvements. This work, estimated to cost $375 million, is scheduled to be staged concurrently with the Kensico-Eastview Connection and is projected to be complete by 2033. The project includes installation of equipment and controls ...
NYC DEP recently announced the Ashokan Century Program, a $750 million plan to upgrade water supply infrastructure at Ashokan Reservoir after being in service for over 100 years. The Ashokan Century Program will include: 1. Rehabilitation of Olive Bridge Dam and other flow control structures, 2. Upgrade of the valves that regulate flow from the res...
The water supply system for New York City is under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP). Drinking water delivered to the city from upstate watersheds is impounded in the Croton, Catskill, and Delaware systems (see Figures 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3).
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The Early Years. In the early 1600s, the Dutch founded New York City, settling on the southern tip of Manhattan. For the next 175 years, water came from wells, ponds and springs within the City.
