TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koeppel,Gerard T.
TI  - Water for Gotham: A History 
SN  - 9780691237848
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Above Par
KW  - Abutment
KW  - Alley
KW  - Appraiser
KW  - Atlantic Ocean
KW  - Banana
KW  - Biogeography
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biologist
KW  - Bourgeoisie
KW  - Brine pool
KW  - Business class
KW  - Caleb (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
KW  - Cast iron pipe
KW  - Catskill Mountains
KW  - Chairman
KW  - Charles Darwin
KW  - Chief engineer
KW  - Cholera
KW  - Christopher Colles
KW  - Coenties Slip
KW  - Coffeehouse
KW  - Commissioner
KW  - Constitutionality
KW  - Croton Aqueduct
KW  - Croton River
KW  - Culvert
KW  - Customer
KW  - Deep sea
KW  - Designer
KW  - Drinking water
KW  - Dutch West India Company
KW  - East Pacific Rise
KW  - Edmund Andros
KW  - Elizabeth Gaskell
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Erie Canal
KW  - Everyman's Library
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Fauna
KW  - Fresh water
KW  - Gastropoda
KW  - Groundwater
KW  - Guaymas
KW  - Harlem River
KW  - Household
KW  - Hudson River
KW  - Hydrocarbon
KW  - Hydrothermal vent
KW  - Indication (medicine)
KW  - Industrialisation
KW  - John Barker Church
KW  - Labor unrest
KW  - Laborer
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Lava
KW  - Legislature
KW  - Logging
KW  - Lydia Maria Child
KW  - Maritime nation
KW  - Martin Van Buren
KW  - Masonry
KW  - Michael Joseph (publisher)
KW  - Mid-Atlantic Ridge
KW  - Misconduct
KW  - Mussel
KW  - New York Harbor
KW  - Nuisance
KW  - Oil spill
KW  - Park Theatre (London)
KW  - Parliamentary sovereignty
KW  - Passenger pigeon
KW  - Patrick Carr
KW  - Per capita
KW  - Percentage
KW  - Peter Stuyvesant
KW  - Philip Hone
KW  - Politics
KW  - Polychaete
KW  - Residence
KW  - Rift valley
KW  - Samuel Osgood
KW  - Saw Mill River
KW  - Seawater
KW  - Sediment
KW  - Sparkling wine
KW  - Steam engine
KW  - Steam locomotive
KW  - Steamship
KW  - Sulfide
KW  - Tariff
KW  - Tax
KW  - Teapot
KW  - The Bronx
KW  - The Manhattan Company
KW  - United States Senate
KW  - Vegetable
KW  - Water supply
KW  - Whigs (British political party)
KW  - William L. Clements Library
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; ONE "Give Us Cold Water" --; TWO Manahata Goes Dutch --; THREE English Well-Being --; FOUR Tea Water and the Works That Weren't --; FIVE New City, Old Trouble --; six Aaron's Water --; SEVEN Fools of Gotham --; EIGHT Catching the Croton Bug --; NINE The Work Begins --; TEN Taking the High Road? --; ELEVEN Filling the "Big Teapot" --; EPILOGUE New York's Water from Then to Now --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Water for Gotham tells the spirited story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element--clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, Gerard Koeppel demonstrates how quickly the shallow wells of Dutch New Amsterdam were overwhelmed, leaving the English and American city beleaguered by filth, epidemics, and fires. This situation changed only when an outside water source was finally secured in 1842--the Croton Aqueduct, a model for urban water supplies in the United States. As the fertile wilderness enjoyed by the first Europeans in Manhattan vanishes and the magnitude of New York's water problem grows, the reader is introduced to the plans of Christopher Colles, builder of the first American steam engine, and of Joseph Browne, the first to call for a mainland water source for this island-city. In this vividly written true-life fable of the "Fools of Gotham," the chief obstacle to the aqueduct is the Manhattan Company. Masterminded by Aaron Burr, with the complicity of Alexander Hamilton and other leading New Yorkers, the company was a ruse, serving as the charter for a bank--today's Chase Manhattan. The cholera epidemic of 1832 and the great fire three years later were instrumental in forcing the city's leaders to finally unite and regain New York's water rights. Koeppel's account of the developments leading up to the Croton Aqueduct reveals it as a triumph not only of inspired technology but of political will. With over forty archival photographs and drawings, Water for Gotham demonstrates the deep interconnections between natural resource management, urban planning, and civic leadership. As New York today retakes its waterfront and boasts famous tap water, this book is a valuable reminder of how much vision and fortitude are required to make a great city function and thrive
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