We talk a lot about what we do with watershed landowners on their farms and in their forests to keep drinking water clean for nine million New Yorkers. But what happens to all that water -- 1.1+-billion gallons a day -- when it leaves the reservoirs of the Croton, Catskill and Delaware watersheds? I mean, really, it's a marvelous trek (and a topic for another post) but once it gets there, to the City, what gives?Check out National Geographic's feature on New York City's Underground. A pictorial tour guides you through buried infrastructure where water is just one of many daily necessities found deep beneath the City That Never Sleeps.
Can you put in order the infrastructure layers at depth (from shallow to deep)? (Water, sewer, subway, electricity, bedrock, gas, steam, cable)
Photo courtesy of JoshDickPhoto.com. Check out the water view before it goes deep underground...August 18, 2010 post for an aerial tour of the Catskill-Delaware watershed and Josh's blog for the Croton fly-over.
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