Article April 18, 1901 Issue

Biggest Dam in the World

New York Herald

While a water famine scare is being raised in various quarters, and while public attention is being directed in this city, Albany, and elsewhere, to schemes to secure to private parties the right to supply the metropolis with more water, the fact has escaped notice that the finishing touches are now being put on immense public works, planned a decade ago, which will more than double the city's supply at single stroke.

The present supply stored in the Croton district and elsewhere is about thirty-four billion gallons. When the works are open which are now nearing completion the supply will be increased to seventy billion gallons.

At this moment a document which reveals the cheerful news is in type on the desk of Chief Engineer Hill, in the office of the Aqueduct Commission, in this city, and it only awaits a resolution of the Board to be made public in the columns of the City Record. This resolution must be adopted without delay, for the time for final action has come. The paper referred to is a call for bids to clean up the Croton valley for a distance of eighteen miles from Croton Landing to a point at the head of the valley in the hilly country in the interior. Houses, fences, orchards, everything must go to make place for a new Croton lake. This paper is in effect an official declaration that a gigantic work which has been in progress more than eight years is practically complete.

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