The History of New York City

New York or other wise called the bid apple is located on the Eastern Atlantic coast of the United States, in front of the Hudson River. The city is at the exact center located of 40 degrees, 42 minutes, and 51 seconds N latitude, and 74 degree. The W longitude degree of 0 minutes 23 second. There are  five boroughs in New York city each of them is a county, and they are Brooklyn(kings Co.) and Queens occupy is the western portion of Long Island, them you have Staten Island attached (Richmond Co.). Manhattan is on their own land masses. New York State mainland is to the north of the Bronx.

The settlers in Manhattan obtain water for domestic used purposely from shallow privately- owned wells. Bowling Green is where the first public well was dug up 1677 and in the year 1776, was the year that the population has reached all most 22,000,on the east side of Broadway between Pearl and White street a reservoir was constructed. Water was pumped from the wells that were closed by the Collect Pond, east of the reservoir that came from the pond itself and it was then distributed through the logs laid in the principal streets. I remember in the 1800 the Manhattan Company (is now called The Chase Manhattan Bank NA) which they sank a well at Reade and Centre street.

As the city’s population started to increase the water in the well becomes more polluted, however the supply was insufficient. In the upper Manhattan water have been, supplemented by cisterns and drawn from a few of its springs. After the city explore the possibilities for increasing supply, the decision were made to impound water from the Croton River, and it become Westchester County, an aqueduct was build to carry water from Old Croton  Reservoirs to the city.

Since the 1842, their were no significant interruptions of any services other than a brief annual shutdowns for routine inspection during 1842 to the Civil War. How ever in 1905 the State Legislature created the Board of Water Supply. After careful consideration, the city made a decision to develop the Catskill region as an additional water source. In other words the Board of Water Supply produced to plan s to construct more faculties to impound the waters from the Esopus Creek, and also the four watersheds in the Catskills. The development of this project was called Catskill system.