Ancient and modern engineering and the Isthmian canal (1903)
Burr, William H. (William Hubert), 1851-1934 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 234
new Croton Dam, is 360.4 square miles, of which 16. 1 square miles, or 4.47 per cent, of its total area is water surface. Mr. John R. Freeman found in the investigations covered by his report to the comptroller of the city of New York in 1900 that the average annual rainfall on that area for the… … Aqueducts near Jerome Park Reservoir, New York City. Table IX gives the main elements of the rainfall and run-off for the Croton watershed during the thirty-two year period, for the averages just given. The table shows that the least annual rainfall was 36.92 inches for 1880, and that the run-off…
Civil engineering · Canals, Interoceanic
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