NYC Water Supply System Overview How does NYC get the water it needs? Or How big is NYC’s water footprint? How does NYC get the water it needs? Or How big is NYC’s water footprint?
NYC Watersheds
Pepacton Schoharie Ashokan Neversink Roundout Cannonsville Catskill/Delaware Watersheds
Croton System
Ashokan Reservoir
Schoharie Reservoir
Neversink Reservoir
West Branch Reservoir
Supply Aqueducts and Tunnels Shandaken Tunnel (1928) Catskill Aqueduct (1915) Delaware Aqueduct (1944) Neversink Tunnel (1950) East Delaware Tunnel (1954) West Delaware Tunnel (1967)
Delaware Aqueduct 10 km Rondout Reservoir West Branch Reservoir
City Tunnels
Jerome Park Reservoir
What is Missing?