Liquid Assets: A History of New York City's Water System

<p>New York City's water system is, by every measure, an engineering marvel. Delivering 1.2 billion gallons of water each day to more than nine million people, it is a complex network of reservoirs stretched out over a vast upstate region and connected by a web of subterranean aqueducts to rival the aqueducts of the ancient Romans. The system, so pivitol to the development of the nation's largest city and its northern suburbs, was realized over the past century and a half, and indeed is still being built beneath New York City's subways and skyscrapers. This is the first comprehensive history of that system from colonial times to the present.</p>

Science & Math

Diane Galusha

Technology

Purple Mountain Press, Ltd.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Franklin D. Roosevelt s New Deal program to help young, unemployed men during the Great Depression by hiring them to work in a mammoth forest army, completed thousands of vital conservation projects nationwide. They were paid just $30 a month a dollar a day. In the Catskills, at CCC camps in Ulster County, Greene County, Schoharie County, Delaware County, and Broome County, city boys and their country cousins, under the tutelage of local woodsmen and mechanics, wielded axes, mattocks and shovels to transform the Catskills in subtle and significant ways, planting millions of trees (more than 3 ½ million in Delaware County in 1934 alone), fighting stream and soil erosion, and building roads, fire towers, hiking trails, ski trails, and the campsites at North Lake, Woodland Valley, Devil s Tombstone and Beaverkill. This new history, illustrated with more than 100 photographs and maps, tells their story--who they were, where they came from, what the

Another Day, Another Dollar: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Catskills

History

Americas

Black Dome Press

<p>THE NEW YORK CITY water system is, by every measure, an engineering marvel. Delivering about a billion gallons of water each day to more than nine million people, it is a complex network of reservoirs stretching out over a vast upstate region and connected by a web of subterranean aqueducts that rival those of the ancient Romans. The system, so pivotal to the development of the nation s largest city and its northern suburbs, was realized over the past 175 years and indeed is still being built beneath the subways and skyscrapers of New York. But clean, abundant water has not come without peril or pain. Thousands of people were forced to relinquish their homes in dozens of communities leveled to make way for the reservoirs of the Croton, Catskill and Delaware supplies. Hundreds of workers died building the tunnels and dams; countless more were injured. The story of the New York City water system is one of genius and daring, sacrifice and tragedy. It is peopled with visionaries, scoundrels and the little men with the picks and shovels who tore away mountains and built new ones to capture the sweet essence of wild rivers far from the Big Apple s teeming streets. THIS EXPANDED VERSION OF LIQUID ASSETS includes 36 new pages and a portfolio of color photos detailing infrastructure projects, watershed protection programs, conservation efforts and recreation and historic preservation initiatives launched since the book was first published in 1999. In Liquid Assets, author Diane Galusha traces the ongoing history of the amazing water system that continues to alter landscapes, transform lives and make possible New York s preeminence among the world s great cities.</p>

LIQUID ASSETS: A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY'S WATER SYSTEM EXPANDED EDITION

Purple Mountain Press

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