Croton River

[2] The Croton River was the main source of the city water supply from 1842 to the mid-20th century.

The resulting storage reservoir, impounding a 16-square-mile (41 km2) watershed, would hold 14.2 billion US gallons (54,000,000 m3) at full capacity.

In the 1890s, rather than building an expensive filtration system, the city ordered the destruction or relocation of any village or hamlet in the watershed that was considered to be a potential pollution source for the Croton or its tributaries.

[citation needed] In the late 1990s, the city stopped using water from the Croton system as it became more and more unsuitable for drinking.

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