History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. II
A rocky ledge on the south side of the reservoir furnishes a natural spillway of ample capacity to take care of the situation in the event the reservoir should be filled to overflowing, providing the necessary outlet for this surplus so that none of this water can go over the dam.
A second reservoir site is owned by the district, which is located on the same creek six miles west of the < diver Reservoir. It has been surveyed and estimates of construction cost made, so that construction can begin whenever the people of the district so desire and more land is petitioned to be included within the irrigation district.
This reservoir when completed will have a capacity of 3,400 acre-feet, which makes a grand total of approximately 11,000 ai res of land that can be ultimately irrigated from these two reservoirs. The rainfall during the growing season, which has been of such great benefit to the Kimball section in the 'past, will be a big help to the irrigation system, as irrigation can be carried on with a smaller quantity of water than would otherwise be required.
As previously stated, an important feature of the Kimball project is the close proximity of the storage reservoir to the land which it is intended to irrigate. The outlet canal is only one-half mile long, and at the point where it reaches the land of the district, divisii n gates are located. At this point two main canals branch off. One is known as the South canal and is flumed across the creek and winds for a distance of twenty miles in an easterly direction to a point seven and one-half miles east of the town of Kimball.