Sentences with phrase «city water tunnel»

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that he would earmark additional money for New York City's third water tunnel to ensure that clean drinking water could be delivered to Brooklyn and Queens within 48 hours of an emergency shutdown of City Water Tunnel No. 2.

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The spring was made inaccessible to attackers and its waters were channeled in a subterranean tunnel cut through the soft limestone rock into the city.

The Gihon spring, outside the city wall — ancient Jerusalem's only unfailing source of water — is made inaccessible to attackers, and its waters channeled through a tunnel cut through the rock, into the city, for a distance of about 1700 feet.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that he was going to add $ 305 million to New York City's capital budget to speed up work on Water Tunnel No. 3 so that it would be able to serve Brooklyn and Queens.

It also allocates $ 303 million to complete a new tunnel linking New York City to its upstate drinking water reservoirs, $ 571 million for bridge maintenance and repair, $ 1 billion for roof repairs at the New York City Housing Authority, $ 478 million to bring more public ramps into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, $ 5.2 million for bullet - proof window inserts on NYPD patrol cars and $ 275 million to upgrade a police shooting range in the Bronx.

Built by the City ofNew Yorkbetween 1909 and 1912 in the last years of its Catskills reservoir construction, the tunnel was designed to divert water from theMain Streetand Tannery creeks into the Esopus Creek, which the city had «surcharged» (taken water from) to feed the Ashokan ReservCity ofNew Yorkbetween 1909 and 1912 in the last years of its Catskills reservoir construction, the tunnel was designed to divert water from theMain Streetand Tannery creeks into the Esopus Creek, which the city had «surcharged» (taken water from) to feed the Ashokan Reservcity had «surcharged» (taken water from) to feed the Ashokan Reservoir.

De Blasio said he was going to add $ 305 million to New York City's capital budget to speed up work on Water Tunnel No. 3 so that it would be able to serve Brooklyn and Queens.

After two students drowned in the water near a tunnel, Cornell officials have proposed installing a steel gate at its opening — blocking the only entrance to a section of Fall Creek Gorge stretching from the top of Ithaca Falls to the swimming area below Forest Falls — and the City Council is scheduled to vote on the proposal tomorrow.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has postponed work to finish New York's third water tunnel, a project that for more than half a century has been regarded as essential to the survival of the city if either of the two existing, and now aged, tunnels should fail.

He also said that he would immediately move to put parts of the city's third water tunnel into use in Brooklyn and Queens, budgeting $ 21 million to disinfect those portions of the tunnel, which he said would be filled with drinkable water as a backup to the existing system.

In his capacity as LEPS Committee chair, Hayes has taken a special interest in such issues as the continuing 35 - million - gallon - a-day leakage of the New York City Water Supply's West Branch Tunnel in the Town of Wawarsing, where he initiated the implementation of an Emergency Response Plan for a potential catastrophic failure of the Tunnel.

The city's Department of Environmental Protection has differed with the State's Department of Environmental Conservation about what constitutes reasonable conditions that must be satisfied before there can be any fracking near the Catskill / Delaware watershed and the tunnels that carry water to New York Ccity's Department of Environmental Protection has differed with the State's Department of Environmental Conservation about what constitutes reasonable conditions that must be satisfied before there can be any fracking near the Catskill / Delaware watershed and the tunnels that carry water to New York CityCity.

The tunnel, along with other elements of the city's water system are nearer the top of the Spring political agenda.

Seemingly out of nowhere, there was a lack of clarity around the city's investment, or apparent lack thereof, in water infrastructure - namely the long - under - construction third water tunnel.

The city was facing a major budget deficit because a contract with the Onondaga County Water Authority for the sale of a water tunnel connected to Lake Ontario, which had provided the city with an annual $ 1 million payment for 20 years, has expWater Authority for the sale of a water tunnel connected to Lake Ontario, which had provided the city with an annual $ 1 million payment for 20 years, has expwater tunnel connected to Lake Ontario, which had provided the city with an annual $ 1 million payment for 20 years, has expired.

Sapienza will oversee construction of the city's third water tunnel, which de Blasio said last year he'd move forward by a year after reports budget moves would delay the project.

The Water Authority is finishing a $ 1.4 billion tunnel and pumping station that amounts to a drain hole in the bottom of Lake Mead, a project Mulroy describes as «a survival policy,» that would allow the city to continue taking water even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover Dam stop operating and California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's water, are completely cutWater Authority is finishing a $ 1.4 billion tunnel and pumping station that amounts to a drain hole in the bottom of Lake Mead, a project Mulroy describes as «a survival policy,» that would allow the city to continue taking water even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover Dam stop operating and California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's water, are completely cutwater even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover Dam stop operating and California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's water, are completely cutwater, are completely cut off.

(They are able to shed most of their naturally occurring minerals as the water flows through the thousands of miles of pipes, aqueducts and tunnels on its way to the city's taps.)

A centerpiece of the plan, to be implemented over 50 years, is a 65 km long tunnel designed to ferry water from the Sacramento River north of the delta around the estuary to farmers in the Central Valley and cities in southern California.

Hezekiah's Tunnel, part of Jerusalem's water system, is located under the City of David.

Explore secret tunnels and water ways below the city that date back to 1652.

Magical Huaraz program is a complete tour which contains elements of the region's main cultural and natural circuits, starting with the delightful city of Huaraz, journeying along the Callejón de Huaylas, visiting Chavín de Huántar, contemplating the snow - capped Mount Pastoruri and lagoons, crossing the White Cordillera, through the Tunnel of Cahuish, going on a hike on the glacier, observing the famous Phuyas de Raymondi which are naturally gaseous water pools, ancient paintings on rocks, and we'll have a chance to enjoy beautiful landscapes and thermal baths, appreciate local handicraft and taste the exquisite regional gastronomy.

Later this year she and her team will break ground on Bending the River Back into the City (2012 — present), a three - part sculpture consisting of a below ground tunnel that diverts water from the Los Angeles River, a seventy - two - foot waterwheel that lifts the water to publicly accessible bio-remediation gardens on the roof of the Metabolic Studio building, and a distribution network of users voluntarily receiving the newly clean water.

After managing several public - works projects in the city, upstate New York and New Jersey in the 1950's and 1960's and taking a leading role for his company in its early work on New York's massive Third Water Tunnel in the 1970's, Fox became chief executive of Grow in the early 1980's.

Later this year she and her team will break ground on Bending the River Back into the City (2012 — present), a three - part sculpture consisting of a belowground tunnel that diverts water from the Los Angeles River, a seventy - two - foot waterwheel that lifts the water to publicly accessible bio-remediation gardens on the roof of the Metabolic Studio building, and a distribution network of users voluntarily receiving the newly clean water.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

The underground tunnel system is what actually brings the water into New York City while the electricity is supplied by a distant hydroelectric plant in a Canadian forest.

Irene - like storms of the future would put a third of New York City streets under water and flood many of the tunnels leading into Manhattan in under an hour because of climate change, a new state government report warns Wednesday.

The report warns that, under global warming conditions, Irene - like storms of the future could put a third of New York City streets under water and flood many of the tunnels leading into Manhattan in less than an hour.

IEDs (load banks, capacitors, tap - changers, and relays) AMI devices (electric water and gas meters) Roles & Accomplishments * Provided strategic consultation on AMI Implementation program to the stakeholders of NYPA (New York Power Authority) and Port Authority of NYNJ for AMI Implementation program for 26 facilities including JFK International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, bridges / tunnels and Bus Terminal in NY City - a $ 46M...