Each of these towns represents a different element of America’s development. Yet they all share the same fate: they, and hundreds of other communities like them, were vacated, demolished and flooded to make way for dams and reservoirs. Their remnants persist, preserved underwater, and sometimes emerge, as reminders of what was not allowed to be.
Friday, February 24, 2012
New York Water Supply ~ 1927
National Archives & Records Aministration film traces water 150 miles from Schoharie Reservoir to New York City. Water flows to the Ashokan Reservoir, through the Hudson River Tunnel and to the Hill View Reservoirs.
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