Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's ever-growing water supply (TIME, April 27). By the same decree Arena (pop. 216), Dunraven (pop. 104), Union Grove (pop. 204), Shavertown (pop. 219), Pepacton (pop. 27) and pos-sibly Downsville (pop. 532) will be blotted out of existence by a great new reservoir which will rise over them when the East Branch of the Delaware* is dammed...
...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 will be made on the Neversink River. Total cost of dams, reservoirs and aqueducts for the new project: $210,000,000. Twelve years will elapse before its completion...
...five miles above New York City the engine of Elinor Smith's Bellanca began to sputter. She reached under the dashboard to turn a fuel valve. Instead, she must have loosened a connection of her oxygen breather. . . . Next thing that Elinor Smith saw was the Hempstead, L. I. reservoir only 2,000 ft. away, rushing up to meet her. She pulled her ship into a gliding angle, skimmed into a field, jammed on the brakes to avoid striking a tree. The plane nosed over. Rescuers rushed up to find the girl unhurt, walking about, crying hysterically. Such...
When finished the dam will rise 727 ft. between the canyon walls, will back the river up into a reservoir 115 miles long, two miles wide. The U. S. already owns as part of the undistributed Public Domain the land in Nevada and Arizona on which the dam will rest.* Settlement will have to be made later for upstream private property to be inundated by the new lake. Most interesting to engineers in the construction will be an experiment to hasten the cooling process of concrete by means of a special ammonia refrigerator plant from which ice water will...
About 1900, New York City submerged Katonah under the waters of the Croton Reservoir. The village built up on another site. The tombstones in the village cemetery were abandoned and were taken up by the owner of this newspaper, at that time, to be used for composing stones. When the plant was moved to Mount Kisco, 18 years ago, the stones came with it. They were not discovered until Jan. 5, 1931, when I discovered one which had accidentally been turned up. They make ideal stones for composing...