Documents and Plans Submitted by the Water Committee to the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn, for the Year 1854Heighway, 1854 - 145 páginas |
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1,910 feet radius 12 inches aforesaid amount aqueduct arch Baiseley's Pond BROOKLYN WATER City of Brooklyn Common Council connected construction contract Cornwell's Pond cost Croton Aqueduct culverts Cypress Hill daily supply DAYTON depth diameter discharge Distributing Reservoir drainage drains elevation embankments Engine House estimated excavation expense feet above tide feet wide furnish gallons daily gallons per day Gate and Keeper's Gate House grade Grubbing and Clearing Hook Creek inches thick influx chamber Jamaica Creek JOHN John Stanbury Keeper's House Long Island Water main spring masonry Massapequa mean tide million gallons millions of gallons necessary open canal Parsonage Creek parties plank present proper proposed pump quantity of water RECEIVING RESERVOIR SAMUEL BOOTH slope sources square miles steam engines streams submitted supply of water Supply Reservoir surface thence treenailed twenty millions walls Water Committee water stock Water Works Company Williamsburgh Water
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