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This is a list of some notable longer aqueducts built in America for water supply:
Year |
City |
State |
Length (Miles) |
MGD | Owner | Material |
Source | Comments |
1754 | Northampton | MA | 2 | Charles Goodrich |
Bored wood logs | Springs | Unsuccessful either to bad construction or broken up by neighbor |
|
1786 | Hudson | NY | 2 | Consumers |
Bored wood logs | Springs | ||
1798 | Albany | NY | 5 | Benjamin Prescott | Bored wood logs | Springs at Five Mile House | Unsuccessful, replaced by aqueduct from Mazelant Kill |
|
1798 | Boston | MA | 5 | Aqueduct Corporation | Bored wood logs | Jamaica Pond | One mile replaced by iron pipe in 1822, all replaced with iron in
1840. |
|
1800 | Albany | NY | 3.5 | Albany Water Works Co. | Bored wood logs | Mazelant Kill | Replaced with cast iron in 1813 |
|
1801 | Philadelphia | PA | 0.83 | City of Philadelphia | Bricks | Schuylkill River | 4,400 feet long, 6 foot diameter, also functioned as a reservoir holding about 900,000 gallons | |
1842 | New York City | NY | 40½ | 72 | City of New York | Masonry |
Croton Reservoir | 7 ft. 5 in. wide and 8 ft. 6 in. high, ultimately delivered 95 MGD |
1848 | Boston | MA | 14.5 | 7.5 | City of Boston | Brick | Lake Cochituate | 5 ft. wide, 6 ft. 4 in. high, able to deliver 10 MGD |
1859 |
Brooklyn | NY | 12.39 |
47 | City of Brooklyn |
Brick |
Hempstead Pond |
10 ft. wide, 9 ft. 8 in. high |
1859 | Washington | DC | 11 |
68 | Corps of Engineers | Masonry |
Potomac Great Falls | 9 ft. diameter, Capacity increased to 100 MGD in the 1930s |
1862 | Baltimore | MD | 3.6 | 20 | City of Baltimore | Brick | Lake Swann | 24.75 sq ft |
1870 | Rochester | NY | 17 | 3.5 |
Rochester Water Works Co. | Wood staves | Smithton Creek | 24 inch conduit, completed September 27, 1870, but never operated. |
1873 | Virginia City | NV | 8 | 2.3 | Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company | Riveted wrought iron pipe | Very high water pressure 750 psig | |
1876 | Rochester | NY | 30 | 7 | City of Rochester | Wrought Iron | Honeoye Lake | |
1878 | Boston | MA | 15 | 110 | City of Boston | Sudbury Aqueduct | ||
1890 | New York City | NY | 33 | 300 | City of New York | Second Croton Aqueduct | ||
1892 | Denver | CO | 17 | 35 | Denver Union Water Company |
Wood Stave | Platte River | 48-inch diameter |
1913 | Los Angeles | CA | 233 | 313 | City of Los Angeles | Various | Owens Valley | Second aqueduct opened in 1970. |
1917 | New York City | NY | 163 | 880 | City of New York | Catskill Aqueduct | ||
1926 | Washington | DC | 11 | 120 | Corps of Engineers | Runs parallel to 1859 aqueduct | ||
1934 | San Francisco | CA | 167 | 400 | City of San Francisco | Hetch Hetchy Reservoir |
References
1880 "Aqueduct,"
from Appletons' Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics, 1:83-92, edited
by Page Benjamin
1886 "Aqueduct," from Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia 1:181-184
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