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Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781332160280

Excerpt from The Municipal Water Supply System of the City of New York: A General Description Of the 6,000,000 inhabitants, more or less, of New York City, all but about 400,000 are supplied with water by the municipality. Such 400,000, constituting a portion of the inhabitants of the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, are supplied by private water companies. This pamphlet deals principally with the municipal water supply system and the work incident to the care, operation and development thereof, which work is confided by statute to the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. The department's jurisdiction and principal duties in relation to this work are as follows: 1. It has jurisdiction, charge and control (a) of the sources of supply of all water furnished by the city, (b) of all water supply structures owned by the city, including reservoirs, dams, aqueducts and gatehouses, and (c) of the city's distribution system, including pumping stations, water mains, valves and fire hydrants. It supplies about 5,600,000 people with water for domestic and business uses and for fire protection, and in so doing operates and maintains the greatest municipal water supply system in the world, of an estimated cost of $341,500,000. 2. It is responsible for the quality of the water, whether supplied by the city or by private water companies. 3. It operates through electrically driven pumps the high pressure fire service in Manhattan and Brooklyn and through gas driven pumps that are at Coney Island. 4. It collects the water revenue, amounting to about $15,000,000 per annum. 5. In conjunction with the Board of Aldermen it fixes the rates at which water supplied by the city shall be sold. 6. It tests water meters. It may require their installation in places where water is supplied for business purposes and it inspects and reads some 108,000 at regular intervals. It may recommend to the Board of Aldermen their installation in residential premises and there install them with the consent of such Board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.