New York City: Storm Drains, Sewers, Buried Streams
Links and
Internet Resources --Croton Aqueduct and the city water tunnel #1 --Stom drains-- are there alligators? --City water tunnel #3 --Is it possible to go draining in NYC without an
oxygen supply? As all evidence and information gathering
will remain experimental and experiential, no negative
answer will ever return (as the messanger will be
disappeared, and probably eaten by crocidiles) and any
positve answer is purely circumstantial. Books and
Such Jones, Pamela. Under the City
Streets. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.
This book has a nice section on the history of the
water supply as well as a map thereof; it also has a copy
of the Viele-MacCoun Water Map. The Bibliography also has
extensive other sources for information.
Mann, Roy. Rivers in the City. New
York, Praeger, 1973.
Daley, Robert. The World Beneath the
City. Philadelphia: lippincott, 1959. Some nice maps/diagrams.
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