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The park is a popular venue for fishing, picnicking, sledding and cross country skiing. [2] The Old Croton Trail begins in the park, which also includes a baseball field and an impressive fountain occasionally operated with high pressure water from the reservoir. The fountain was reopened in 2000 after having been out of service since the mid ...
1896 NY Times map of proposed reservoir. The reservoir was built in 1906 to serve the New Croton aqueduct [2] as part of the New York City water supply system.It is named for Jerome Park Racetrack, a part of the former Old Bathgate Estate (owned by Winston Churchill's maternal grandfather Leonard Walter Jerome 1817–1891, for whom the racetrack was originally named) which opened in 1866 and ...
The three branches of the Croton River are collected at the New Croton Reservoir. Flow in excess of New York City's needs goes over a spillway at the New Croton Dam there and discharges into the Hudson River. The Croton Watershed is a term describing a part of the New York City water supply system.
Boyds Corner Dam; Cannonsville Dam; Cross River Dam; Cuba Lake Dam; Cuddebackville Dam; Conklingville Dam; Downsville Dam; East Sidney Dam; Federal Dam; Gilboa Dam; Jamesville Dam; Kensico Dam; Marcy Dam; Merian Dam; Mount Morris Dam; Muscoot Dam; Neversink Dam; New Croton Dam; Olivebridge Dam; Rushford / Caneadea Dam at Rushford Lake; Stewart ...
The New Croton Dam (also known as Cornell Dam) [1] is a dam forming the New Croton Reservoir, both parts of the New York City water supply system. It stretches across the Croton River near Croton-on-Hudson, New York, about 22 miles (35 km) north of New York City. Construction began in 1892 and was completed in 1906. [2]
Silver Lake Park is a 13.5 acre park with a beach along the Croton River with trails to Carrie E. Tompkins elementary school (CET) and the north tip of Cleveland Drive. [27] Black Rock Park is a 10.5 acre park on the Croton River, near New York State Route 129 (NY 129), within a mile or so of the Croton Dam, used mostly for fly fishing and ...
It has a 57 square mile (148 km 2) drainage basin, [4] is approximately 9 miles (14 km) long, and can hold 19 billion US gallons (72,000,000 m 3) of water at full capacity. Its waters flow into the New Croton Aqueduct, then into the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx.
The three branches of the Croton River are collected at the New Croton Reservoir. Flow in excess of New York City's needs goes over a spillway at the New Croton Dam there and discharges into the Hudson River. The Croton River watershed is a hydrological feature, the 361 sq mi (930 km 2) [2] drainage basin of the Croton River and its