Titicus Reservoir

General data

Water type: Artificial lake
Progression: Titicus River -> Muscoot Reservoir -> Croton River -> Hudson River -> Upper New York Bay -> Lower New York Bay -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Temperate
Continents: North America
Countries: United States of America

Description

Titicus Reservoir is a reservoir located in the Town of North Salem in Westchester County, north of New York City. One of twelve in the NYC water supplys Croton Watershed, it has been supplying the system since 1893. At full capacity it holds 2.7 million m3. It is 2.7 km2 in area, 3.2 km long, reaches a mean depth of 9.8 m and drains a 62.4 km2 area in North Salem and Lewisboro. The Titicus River, which feeds the east end of the reservoir, begins more than five miles away in Ridgefield, Connecticut; it drains much of northern Ridgefield and Ridgebury, Connecticut. Water from the reservoir goes first along the Titicus to the Muscoot Reservoir, then into New Croton Reservoir and finally along the 38.6-km New Croton Aqueduct to the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx, where it becomes part of the citys daily draw.

Titicus Reservoir

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