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Croton Water Supply System
Society
Main Category
Sub Category
Era
Date Created
Location Country
us
Coordinates
41.233333, -73.800556
Address1
Croton River
Address2
NY 129
City
New York
State
Country
Creator

Inferior water and the lack of a sufficient water supply prompted public pressure to find a significant water source for the 360,000 of people living in New York City at the time. Studies determined that the Croton River, 40 miles north of the city, was the best available source. The original system served as a prototype for large-scale water supply projects across America. 

"New York became the first large city to liberate real estate and industry on a metropolitan-wide scale from the limitations of a feeble water supply ... while Boston, Philadelphia and Cincinnati had aqueduct systems, they could not compare with Croton."
- Eugene Moehring, historian, 1985
Image Credit
Courtesy Flickr/Otterman56 (CC BY 2.0)
Image Caption
Croton Water Supply System

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