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The 92-mile (148 km) aqueduct consists of 55 miles (89 km) of cut and cover aqueduct, over 14 miles (23 km) of grade tunnel, 17 miles (27 km) of pressure tunnel, and nine miles (10 km) of steel siphon. [4] The 67 shafts sunk for various purposes on the aqueduct and City Tunnel vary in depth from 174 to 1,187 feet (362 m). [5]
The Delaware Aqueduct, completed in 1945, taps tributaries of the Delaware River in the western Catskill Mountains and provides approximately half of New York City's water supply. [ 16 ] The latter two aqueducts provide 90% of New York City's drinking water, and the watershed for these aqueducts extends a combined 1 million acres (400,000 ha).
The 85-mile Delaware Aqueduct, deep underground, is the world’s longest tunnel. The Catskill Aqueduct is not a tunnel, but, rather is at surface and spans 92 miles.
San Jacinto Tunnel on the Colorado River Aqueduct 13 mi (21 km) New York City water supply system. Catskill Aqueduct 28 miles (45 km) of grade tunnel, 35 miles (56 km) of pressure tunnel. Delaware Aqueduct 85 miles (137 km) New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 60 miles (97 km) Päijänne Water Tunnel 75 miles (120 km) San Juan–Chama Project
The Delaware Aqueduct is the longest tunnel in the world and carries water for 85 miles (137 kilometers) from four reservoirs in the Catskill region to other reservoirs in the city's northern suburbs. Operating since 1944, it provides roughly half the 1.1 billion gallons (4.2 billion liters) a day used by more than 8 million New York City ...
The two-mile-long tunnel will join the complex maze of reservoirs, tunnels, aqueducts and water mains that delivers roughly a billion gallons of drinking water per day to 9 million people in New ...
When they finish the $1 billion tunnel in 2022, the entire Delaware Aqueduct will be shut down for months to prepare for the diversion. Fixing a massive NYC plumbing leak, 55 stories underground ...
The Catskill Aqueduct carries water to New York City over a distance of 120 miles (190 km), but is dwarfed by aqueducts in the far west of the country, most notably the 242-mile (389-km) Colorado River Aqueduct, which supplies the Los Angeles area with water from the Colorado River nearly 250 miles to the east and the 701.5-mile (1,129.0 km ...