Valentine's manual of old New York . gavethem the right to erect any dams or other works acrossor upon any stream or streams of water, river or rivers,or any other place or places in order to obtain an amplesupply of water for the city, it did not avail itself of theprivileges granted and only sank a large well twenty-five feet in diameter at the corner of the present Readeand Centre Streets and pumped the water into a reservoiron Chambers Street from which it was distributed throughwooden pipes. From this time until the construction of the CrotonReservoir a period of over thirty years, nothin
Valentine's manual of old New York . gavethem the right to erect any dams or other works acrossor upon any stream or streams of water, river or rivers,or any other place or places in order to obtain an amplesupply of water for the city, it did not avail itself of theprivileges granted and only sank a large well twenty-five feet in diameter at the corner of the present Readeand Centre Streets and pumped the water into a reservoiron Chambers Street from which it was distributed throughwooden pipes. From this time until the construction of the CrotonReservoir a period of over thirty years, nothing of per-manent good was accomplished toward solving the ques-tion of supplying the city with pure and wholesome waterin abundance and during all these years its need was everapparent. In 1819 Robert Macomb was granted theprivilege of bringing water from the Bronx River to areservoir on Manhattan Island but nothing came of 1821 a committee with Mayor Stephen Allen as chair- [232 ] ©o 0 HI I i W» &3 < LL 8fc- w O P3 ^*v & i
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