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35. Voters approved the project by a 3-to-1 margin, except in the sparsely popu-
lated northern part of the city which had good well water. See Larry D. Lankton,
“1842: Old Croton Aqueduct Brings Water, Rescues Manhattan from Fire, Disease,”
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47 (1977), October, 93.
36. Lankton,“1842: Old Croton Aqueduct Brings Water, Rescues Manhattan from
Fire, Disease,” 94.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., 95, 96; Stuart Galishoff, “Triumph and Failure: The American Response
to the Urban Water Supply Problem, 1860-1923,” in
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ican Cities, 1870-1930,
ed. M. Melosi (University of Texas Press, 1980), 36.
39. Ibid., 90.
40. Eugene Moehring,
Public Works and the Patterns of Urban Real Estate Growth in
Manhattan, 1835-1894
(Arno, 1981), 31, 32, 44-47, 50.
41. Blake,
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199-218; Nesson,
Great Waters,
11, 12. In 1878 the
Sudbury system, drawing water from the Sudbury River, complemented the
Cochituate.
42. William R. Hutton, “The Washington Aqueduct, 1853-1898,”
Engineering
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40 (1899), July 29, 190-193.
43. Cited in John B. Blake, “The Origins of Public Health in the United States,”
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44. Galishoff, “Triumph and Failure,” 37, 38.
45. Michael McCarthy,
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Philadelphia
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46. Ibid., 1.
47. Galishoff, “Triumph and Failure,” 37, 38.
