Proceedings Of The Municipal Engineers Of The City Of New York 1904 Classic Reprint

Download or read book Proceedings of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York, 1904 (Classic Reprint) written by W. H. Roberts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York, 1904 In view of the instructions given to the Commission, it seemed necessary that a broad view of the question should be taken and that the problem of the future water supply of the city should, as far as possible, be settled for a long period in the future. At the same time these instructions were such that the Commission was not permitted to consider any source of supply Of an interstate char acter, for the reason that any attempt to take water flowing from this State into other States would be followed by litigation of so serious a character that the construction of an additional supply would be deferred indefinitely; in other words, the Commission was limited to the consideration of those sources which were avail able without the shadow Of litigation over them. Those instructions shut out such streams as the Housatonic, the Ten Mile River, which is a branch of the Housatonic, or any stream flowing from New York into New Jersey. The investigations Of the Commission were thus practically limited to the waters Of the Hudson River or to those tributary to it. 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.