THE WATER SUPPLY OF NEW YORK CITY.
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Published:2011
John George Leigh, 2011. "THE WATER SUPPLY OF NEW YORK CITY.", ENGINEERING WONDERS OF THE WORLD VOLUME III., Archibald Williams
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The Dam in, next to the Great Pyramid* of Egypt, the largest masonry structure in the world. It impounds
32,000,000,000 gallons of water.
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ON June 21, 1907, on the side of one of many mountains soon to lx» perforated by a mammoth aqueduct, Mr. M'Clennan, Mayor of X<« York, cut the first sod of perhaps the greatest municipal engineering work ever undertaken.
The enterprise in question is the third of a series, all designed, within the comparatively short period of seventy years, with a single object—that of furnishing New York with a reliable and, in the estimation of its population, sufficient water supply.
