Croton Aqueduct
the aqueduct AQUEDUCT, the aqueduct supply of New York City from the Croton basin, an area of about 375 square miles, situated about 30 miles from the city. The old aqueduct was constructed between 1837 and 1842; it is 38 miles for the greater part of its course of 13½ inches to the mile, the water channel averaging 8 feet 5 inches in height and 7 feet 8 inches in greatest breadth. New York needs greater supply, a new aqueduct was begun in 1883. This delivers to the city about 336,000,000 gal- Catskill aqueduct in 1917 the Croton lons daily. With the completion of the aqueduct furnishes only about half the water supply of New York City.