. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . 319 [n 1866 the present high service works ;it High Bridge were commencedand completed so as to he brought into use in 1S?, since which time their ca-pacity has been enlarged by the const nu t ion of another pumping engine andI he laying of additional pipes. In the same year the const ruction of the storagereservoir at Boyds Corners, on the west branch of the Croton River, wasbegun. It was not completed to be available for use until March, lti]->. Byan Act of the legislature
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . 319 [n 1866 the present high service works ;it High Bridge were commencedand completed so as to he brought into use in 1S?, since which time their ca-pacity has been enlarged by the const nu t ion of another pumping engine andI he laying of additional pipes. In the same year the const ruction of the storagereservoir at Boyds Corners, on the west branch of the Croton River, wasbegun. It was not completed to be available for use until March, lti]->. Byan Act of the legislature of L870, the remaining portion of the masonry aque-duct on Manhattan Island, above the surface of the ground, betweenNinety second and One Hundred and Thirteenth Streets, was ordered to bereplaced by underground conduits. The conduits decided upon were four linesof four-feet pipes, laid under the surface of Tenth Avenue. The3 were com-pleted in 1875. In L872 the then commissioner of public works purchased the land for thenew storage reservoir on the middle branch of the Croton River, near Carrael;. HIOH BRIDGE. but for some reason it was not put under contract until October, 1874. It wascompleted and water let into it in April, 1878. The total amount expended for works, structures, aqueducts, pipes, etc.,•tc, connected with the water supply of the city of New York, includingmaintenance and repairs, from the period of its inception to the first day ofJanuary, 187!), was thirty-five million eight hundred and twenty thousand dollars and forty-six cents, of which sum twenty million thirtythousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety-three cents had been?went to January 1, 1865. The revenue derived from Croton water from itsutroduction into the city in 1842 to January 1, 1879, amounted to thirty-twomillion one thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and But as the city continued to grow the old aqueduct became inadequate tosup
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