Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City did not get its new water supply unconditionally. Before it may build dams for diversion it must erect plants at Port Jervis to purify sewage and eliminate industrial waste pouring into the Delaware. Also if the river drops below a specified level at Trenton, New York must release a part of its impounded supply. On the East Branch will be constructed an $18,700,000 dam from which a tunnel big enough to drive an automobile in will be blasted 22 mi. through solid mountain rock to link with the present Catskill system. Another $7,200,000 reservoir...
...State of New York last week definitely decided to go into the hydroelectric power business on a scale as large as the U. S. at Boulder Dam. The Legislature at Albany passed a bill creating a State Power Authority to conduct this ambitious utility enterprise. The Power Authority will construct a $171,547,000 dam and generating plant near Massena Point on the international rapids of the St. Lawrence River. It will market the energy? some 2,000,000 h. p.?there produced, through private distributing agencies already in the utility field...
...Power Authority must first obtain consent from the Federal Government and Canada to dam the international rapids. Then it must negotiate marketing contracts with private companies, particularly Niagara Hudson Power Corp., for the distribution of its power. These contracts, of great importance in the whole scheme, constitute the State's new method of rate regulation whereby the benefits of public production may be passed along to the consumer. If reasonable contracts for the control of prices cannot be made, the Power Authority must return to the Legislature for additional permission to go into the power transmission and distribution business...
...contains an excellent summary of the events of the day. But there is one respect in which it might be improved: that is by the elimination of the vulgarity which is so frequently quoted; e. g., in the last issue on p. 14, one article is headed "Damn Big Dam," and on p. 16, the words of Senator Norris are quoted: "Take a bundle of straw and go across the river and start a little hell of his own." Such quotations are the fly in the ointment. They have a bad influence on the minds of the children...
...condition as Senator Robinson says and the people have to wait for rain for relief, why wouldn't the best plan be to ask the Red Cross for enough money to transplant the whole crowd out here to Arizona and California where we have irrigation water (the dams are sure filling up); have Congress speed up Boulder Dam and maybe build another one or two. Here in this country they can farm twelve months a year 365 days to the year with the extra one leap year...