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Reading a great book on NYC's Water Supply history

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Mad Dog_2
Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 8,377
in THE MAIN WALL

Consulting by Mad Dog & Matt Jr.

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  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 8,377
    As a serious student of history, books like these advance my knowledge base in my particular Fields of Interest in great leaps.  This book is Red Meat 🍖 if you have an interest in how the greatest city in the world got, took, cajoled,  "acquired " the water 💧 supply we enjoy today.  I highly recommend NINETEEN RESERVOIRS.  Mad Dog 🐕 
    Consulting by Mad Dog & Matt Jr.
  • bburd
    bburd Member Posts: 1,241
    Yes, that is an excellent book. It's unusual in that it concentrates more on the effects on the people living near the water sources than on the engineering of the system itself. That's a perspective we don't often see.
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    Bburd
    Mad Dog_2
  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 8,377
    Yes..The Fambly has a Catskill Deer Camp a few miles from the Pepacton.  I have a row boat 🚣‍♀️ on it too.  The resentment is VERY deep with a good chunk of the locals against "The Flatlanders...The City Slickers." I get a kick out of them and I can't blame them either, but.....Robert Moses is similarly detested in some quarters.  I've read enough on the Engineering and building of The Ressies...This was a more Sociological study...

    Have you read "Hidden Waters." ?  MAD DOG 🐕 
    Consulting by Mad Dog & Matt Jr.
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 26,538
    Have you read Liquid Assets?
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
    Mad Dog_2

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