Documentary History of American Water-works

Aqueducts

This is a list of some notable longer aqueducts built in America for water supply:

Year	City	State	Length (Miles)	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		Bored wood logs	Springs
1798	Albany	NY	5	Albany Water Works Co.	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 replace 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 iron in 1813
1842	New York City	NY	40½	City of New York	Masonry	Croton Reservoir
1848	Boston	MA	14.5	City of Boston	Brick	Lake Cochituate
1859	Brooklyn	NY	12.39	City of Brooklyn	Brick	Hempstead Pond
1859	Washington	DC	11	Corps of Engineers	Masonry	Potomac Great Falls
1870	Rochester	NY	17	Rochester Water Works Co.	Wood staves	Smithton Creek	Completed September 27, 1870, but never operated.
1876	Rochester	NY	30	City of Rochester	Wrought Iron	Honeoye Lake
1892	Denver	CO	17	Denver Union Water Company	Wood Stave	Platte River
1913	Los Angeles	CA	233	City of Los Angeles	Various	Owens Valley
1934	San Francisco	CA	167	Hetch Hetchy Reservoir

References
1880 "Aqueduct," from Appletons' Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics, edited by Page Benjamin