Exposition of Errors in the Calculation of the Board of Water Commissioners, Whereof the Correction Is Necessary to Be Made by Voters, Before a Sound Judgment Can Be Formed on the Question

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Excerpt from Exposition of Errors in the Calculation of the Board of Water Commissioners, Whereof the Correction Is Necessary to Be Made by Voters, Before a Sound Judgment Can Be Formed on the Question: Whether the Present Plan for Bringing in the Croton Water Forty Miles, Shall Be Adopted, Specially Addressed to Owners of Real Estate, Merchants, and Mechanics, With Some Remarks on the Erie Rail RoadHaving for some time past been led to bestow attention on the sub jcet of supplying water to this city from the sources present in the island, and being of that profession within whose province the construction of aqueducts happens to fall, the writer asks leave to lay before you a few plain reasons, Why the plan of the Water Commissioners to bring in the Croton is at the sacrifice of near and pure sources, immediately at com mand, and essentially necessary Without loss of time. While, on the contrary, their plan, with a view to bring the expense within limits that might not be insurmountably repugnant to public sentiment, involves the dangerous delay of a number of years, and some uncertainty, after all, of its answering the purpose, in our climate, in the mode of structure proposed.The distance of the source, which is a reason for the surest possible method, is thus made the reason for an experimental work in hydraulic masonry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.