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…000 m 3 ) of water, a small fraction of the New York City water system's total storage capacity of 580 billion US gallons (2.2 × 10 9 m 3 ). [ 4 ] Work began in 1892 at a site on the
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…It would cover an area of land 20 miles long) 1892 construction began on the new Dam. 1896 work began on a new dam on the site
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…new Croton Dam at Quaker Bridge, but
that plan was abandoned, and in August, 1892, the contract was
awarded for the Cornell Dam, now approaching completion, about
a mile and a half above the Quaker Bridge site. No fewer than…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…The dams of the Croton Waterworks ranged from small, picturesque ones in Putnam and Westchester counties to the one-hundred-foothigh New Croton Dam—constructed between 1892 and 1906—with its iconic steel-arched bridge. Keepers’ Houses The Old Croton…