An Inquiry Into the Conditions Relating to the Water-supply of the City of New YorkI. H. Blanchard Company, 1900 - 627 páginas |
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... delivered to this city and its price , but also the future power of this city to obtain an increased supply from any source whatsoever . " It has appeared to me that , for the reasons stated , practical results , if any , must be sought ...
... delivered to this city and its price , but also the future power of this city to obtain an increased supply from any source whatsoever . " It has appeared to me that , for the reasons stated , practical results , if any , must be sought ...
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... delivering water at the city limits . The relative cost , therefore , to the City per mil- lion gallons by the proposed Ramapo contract , which fixes the price of water delivered at the northern lim- its of the city at $ 70 , and by ...
... delivering water at the city limits . The relative cost , therefore , to the City per mil- lion gallons by the proposed Ramapo contract , which fixes the price of water delivered at the northern lim- its of the city at $ 70 , and by ...
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... delivering 100,000,000 gallons daily , would be completed in 1906 at a total cost of $ 29,691,000 ; we have further ... delivered under the municipal system . Both estimates are based upon an increase of population at a rate justified ...
... delivering 100,000,000 gallons daily , would be completed in 1906 at a total cost of $ 29,691,000 ; we have further ... delivered under the municipal system . Both estimates are based upon an increase of population at a rate justified ...
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... delivered by gravity ; that is , from reservoirs at a sufficient elevation to deliver under pressure . The average daily consumption of all the boroughs in the City of New York was , in 1899 , 371,778,000 gallons , an estimated average ...
... delivered by gravity ; that is , from reservoirs at a sufficient elevation to deliver under pressure . The average daily consumption of all the boroughs in the City of New York was , in 1899 , 371,778,000 gallons , an estimated average ...
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... delivering at first more than 100,000,000 gallons daily . The 250 million gallons a day , com- bined with the present supply , will meet the needs of the City for fifteen or twenty years to come . Thereafter increased pump- ing ...
... delivering at first more than 100,000,000 gallons daily . The 250 million gallons a day , com- bined with the present supply , will meet the needs of the City for fifteen or twenty years to come . Thereafter increased pump- ing ...
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acres additional supply Adirondack Adirondack Mountains aqueduct asphalt average daily Borough of Manhattan Boston Brooklyn buildings capacity cent construction consumption of water cost per million Croes Croton Aqueduct Croton River Croton water cubic feet daily consumption delivered elevation Engineering Committee Esopus Creek estimates of cost feet above tide filtered fireboats flow furnished gallons a day gallons per day gallons per head gravity ground-water head per day Housatonic Rivers houses Hudson River hydrant increase Lake leakage leaks located Long Island Low Service Main High Service Manhattan meters miles of pipe municipal obtained pavements plant population Poughkeepsie proposed pumping station purposes quantity of water Ramapo Company Ramapo Water Company reduced Ridgewood Reservoir salt water Schoharie Schoharie Creek Schroon Lake Schroon River sewers sources square miles storage reservoirs streams street supply of water surface TABLE tion Upper High Service Wallkill River waste of water water supply watershed
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Página 425 - ... property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation ; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes. This section shall not prevent such county, city, town or village from making such provision for the aid or support of its poor as may be authorized by law.
Página 426 - The amount hereafter to be raised by tax for county or city purposes, in any county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or any such city of this state, in addition to providing for the principal and interest of...
Página 425 - ... shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment rolls of said county or city on the last assessment for state or county taxes prior to the incurring of such indebtedness...
Página 424 - No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes.
Página 442 - ... said bonds for their redemption, by raising annually a sum which will produce an amount equal to the sum of the principal and interest of said bonds at their maturity.
Página 425 - All certificates of indebtedness or revenue bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes, which are not retired within five years after their date of issue, and bonds issued to provide for the supply of water, and any debt hereafter incurred by any portion or part of a city, if there shall be any such debt, shall be included in ascertaining the power of the city to become otherwise indebted...
Página 473 - Involve the employment of laborers, workmen or mechanics shall contain a stipulation that no laborer, workman or mechanic in the employ of the contractor, sub-contractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by flre, flood or danger to life or property.
Página 470 - An act to amend chapter 371 of the Laws of 1 866, entitled 'An act to extend the operation and effect of the act passed February 17, 1848, entitled An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes...
Página 425 - Nor shall this section be construed to prevent the issue of bonds to provide for the supply of water; but the term of the bonds issued to provide the supply of water shall not exceed twenty years, and a sinking fund shall be created on the issuing of the said bonds for their redemption, by raising annually a sum which will produce an amount equal to the sum of the principal and interest of said bonds at their maturity.
Página 436 - The consequence is, therefore, that there is no such thing known to the law as a right to any particular flow of surface water, jure naturae.