New Croton Dam

Sean Hopkins: 2nd Mar 2009 - 20:19 GMT

Sick post man, looks like an amazing venture. Again, great captions!

Sean Hopkins: 3rd Mar 2009 - 01:41 GMT

By the way, what are you shooting these with? They came out beautifully.

CartLegger: 3rd Mar 2009 - 02:51 GMT

Funny story about that. It woulda been all my Olympus, but 3/4 of those photos did not even expose properly (mostly my fault!). So most were taken on my wife's new camera, a very nice Canon 880 digital she grudgingly let me use!

But really, its a bit of photoshop CS4 color enriching that gives such nice look! the wonder of hue and saturation!

;)

Rowan Tree: 3rd Mar 2009 - 17:22 GMT

This is incredibly cool. Thanks for posting!

B.: 3rd Mar 2009 - 19:31 GMT

These are fantastic shots, but so few. Have you any others you could also post?

CartLegger: 3rd Mar 2009 - 23:26 GMT

well, there has to be a certain economy to things, for many reasons. Among them, No one wants to see too many pictures of the same thing, and I don't have too many--most of mine were overexposed!

But I'll dig up a few more, dam it!

CartLegger: 3rd Mar 2009 - 23:43 GMT

It was cold enough to freeze the the top of the reservoir...

but as the evidence shows, the water still flowed! You can see the natural part of the spillway meeting the man-made part, which is a great engineering solution.

Looking down the imposing edifice led us to wonder "where along this wall is the pipe that takes the water down the aquaduct the 26 miles to NYC?"

Still working on that one...

CartLegger: 4th Mar 2009 - 00:30 GMT

It looks just as awe inspiring from below, my wife also wanted to mention.

VGhoul: 4th Mar 2009 - 02:44 GMT

dam thats cool.... Couldn't have said it better myself. :D

thebeff: 4th Mar 2009 - 05:41 GMT

this is a really awesome picture. i love the colors and how they shove right into that dude. sick.

sara: 8th Mar 2009 - 20:43 GMT

The houses in your shots have the valves that regulate the overflows, and the gates shown in first shot. As I have heard, there are tunnels actually to the city, huge ones! Usual practice is to have the inlet under the resivour, but near the dam, so you can't see it.

R. Ashok Kumar: 9th Mar 2009 - 10:24 GMT

TREES ARE THE BEST DAMS:THEY DEFY GRAVITY!

Dear Fellow Earth Residents:
Electric Load Demand triggers DETERMINISTICALLY worldwide earthquakes because dams meet the load changes by building giant surge waves of pressure heads of 100 km/sec or more at centers of gravity of water masses behind reservoirs in heavily dammed regions.

The plethora of dams already there and now being built at a feverish pace in Asia,China,Iran and other parts of the world will result in a catastrophe harming the entire globe by enormous heating,hurricanes,cyclones,floods,fires,landslides and with increased numbers of nuclear power plants result in genpatsu-shinsai-a simultaneous earthquake and nuke melt at the same location(It almost happened at Kasiwasaki Kariwa on 16th July 2007 and the giant unit there is still shut down). Of course, complete melting of snow caps, glaciers, the arctic and the antarctic will occur at a furious pace.And perennial Himalayan river flow will vanish.
Something urgently must be done. One step is reforestation using the world's dams on an emergency do or die pace. That forests are infinitely superior to dams which are helpless against gravity has been brought out conclusively.

Vote for Change. Even trillions of present value dollars for a business as usual future is bound to be useless.

Cartlegger: 9th Mar 2009 - 12:19 GMT

Thanks so much for contributing.
Big dams can be an issue, true.
This one is not big, but it is vital.
I mean, isn't it great that New Yorkers have clean water to drink?

Peter: 9th Mar 2009 - 13:08 GMT

trees defy gravity! :-0

a quick look at google indicates that Mr. R. Ashok Kumar must fee lvery passionately about dams, as he has posted stuff like this to many, many blogs.

www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Ashok+Kumar%22+%2Bdam&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

perhaps this is his facebook?
www.facebook.com/people/R-Ashok-Kumar/584705777

i bet you a dollar he never re-visits this post and sees this, haha...

John Fitzgerald: 17th Mar 2009 - 12:56 GMT

Mr. R. Ashok "Slidewhistle" Kumar obviously doesn't realize that the New Croton Dam is NOT used for power-generation.

As for the dam's details; check out this online-book. You'll find details of the dam's construction, operation, and some excellent old-timey photographs.

Page 176 has details on the dam's aqueduct connection:
books.google.com/books?id=EaEgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq=croton+dam+elevation&source=bl&ots=4-EVcG5mH6&sig=RIoiKVFVwroO-FYJ07hdc3Pvixk&hl=en&ei=54q-SeSSO82Jtge8xtj3Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA184,M2

Jessie Lee: 24th Mar 2009 - 22:45 GMT

great photos, I live in Texas, and have only been thru NY a few tims!
Every time I see a lot of great, and few ugly things but this is just great

NYC Civil Engineering dude: 20th Apr 2009 - 04:46 GMT

Question "Looking down the imposing edifice led us to wonder 'where along this wall is the pipe that takes the water down the aquaduct the 26 miles to NYC?' Still working on that one... "
Answer: under the reservoir about 1 mile east of the dam.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/dep_projects/croton_wide.shtml

eyeofodin: 11th Mar 2013 - 03:14 GMT

I just visited the dam today. It was quite the site in person! I've been living in this area for a couple of years now and was always putting the trip off 'till next weekend'.