Research Catalog

Title

Water-works : the architecture and engineering of the New York City water supply / Kevin Bone, editor ; Gina Pollara, associate editor ; Paul Deppe, archive project associate ; essays by Albert F. Appleton ... [et al.] ; with excerpts from City Water Tunnel #3 by Marty Pottenger.

Publication

New York : Monacelli Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bone, Kevin.
• Pollara, Gina.
• Appleton, Albert F.
• Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. School of Architecture.

Description

268 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), plans (some col.); 27 x 24 cm.

Summary

"The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the story of the massive program of exploration and construction that was required to achieve such purity. The story of that monumental undertaking is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels. This complex system brings millions of gallons of water to the city every day from rivers many hundreds of miles away."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Waterworks

Subjects

• History
• Water-supply > New York (State) > New York > History
• Waterworks > New York (State) > New York > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-255) and index.

Contents

Galileo's tears -- The rise to Croton / Gerard Koeppel -- The geologist -- The extension of the Croton system / Kevin Bone -- The hoghouse -- The Catskill system / Kevin Bone -- Upheaval -- The Delaware system / Kevin Bone -- The hoghouse man -- The post-Delaware era / Albert F. Appleton -- Accident story -- The future of water / Peter H. Gleick -- West Indian sandhog.

ISBN

• 9781580931762 (hardcover)
• 1580931766 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2006024663

OCLC

• 70839718
• SCSB-12736771

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library