NYC's+Water

HOME New York City’s infrastructure is truly an engineering marvel, but one that faces continual challenges. Two massive concrete-lined underground tunnels built in the early twentieth century—known as Tunnel 1 and Tunnel 2—deliver the city’s water supply. No one knows their current condition, because rusted valves have prevented shutdowns for tunnel inspections. New York City’s “sandhogs,” underground construction workers, have been working on a third tunnel for 40 years. When completed in 2012, Tunnel 3 will provide redundancies for a safer water system, along with the opportunity to shut down Tunnel 1 for rehabilitation. Information about NYC's Tunnel System (specifically Tunnel 3 construction)
 * **Liquid Assets Movie Clip (Ask Joe for DVD)**
 * Chapter 6 - New York City: System Complexity & Watershed Protection (Approx. 6 min.)**



__[|NYC Underground: Water Tunnel No. 3] (youtube) __
__New York Times: [|An Effort by Deep-Sea Divers to Repair a **New York Water** Tunnel] __

Ask Joe for the folder of text resources (maps, handouts, and reports).
 * NYC DEP PRINT RESOURCES **

NYC DEP - Report on how NYC cleans it's drinking water.

[|NYC 2010 Water Quality Report]

New York City's Water System History

New York City's Water Sampling & Analysis Stations || || NY Water Data and Info from the US Geological Survey (USGS) USGS Report: Water Quality in Urban Areas Is water in cities more contaminated than other areas?

Life Along The Gowanus - Picture Slide Show of Brooklyn's Gowanus River Related Article - Gowanus Canal Gets Superfund Status

Find Water Polluters Near NYC using an interactive map from NPR.org

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