1. NYC Water Supply System Overview
How does NYC get the water it needs? Or
How big is NYC’s water footprint?

2. NYC Watersheds

3. Catskill/Delaware Watersheds
Schoharie
Cannonsville
Pepacton
Ashokan
Neversink
Roundout

4. Croton System

5. Ashokan Reservoir

6. Ashokan Fall 1999
Photo by Mike Szyszka, fall 1999

7. Schoharie Reservoir

8. Neversink Reservoir

9. West Branch Reservoir

10. Supply Aqueducts and Tunnels
Catskill Aqueduct (1915)
Shandaken Tunnel (1928)
West Delaware Tunnel (1967)
East Delaware Tunnel (1954)
Neversink Tunnel (1950)
Delaware Aqueduct (1944)

11. Delaware Aqueduct
Rondout Reservoir
10 km
West Branch
Reservoir

12. City Tunnels

13. Jerome Park Reservoir

14. Drought Status

15. NYC Reservoirs
Where is the water?

16. Reflections
What are consequences of exporting water from the Upper Delaware River and the Hudson River Watershed to NYC?