The first recognizable sewage system in New York City was built nearly four-hundred years ago by the Dutch settlers. The Dutch dug trenches by the side of the road. They would dump their waste in these trenches and wait for it to rain.
After the English settled here the methods of disposing waste changed. They had a system that involved a small wooden hut with a deep hole dug under it. There was a seat with a hole cut in it and it was used much like a toilet.
New York is very close to the Atlantic ocean which means that it is fairly accesable. New York Harbour became one of the busiest harbours in the nation. If New York is acessible than it will be a big immagration attraction. The higher the population the more people to tax. Also if there are a lot of goods that go through New York to other places in the country then New York gets a share of the profit and they get o charge the boats that come in. Water has been instrumental in almost every great city and there foundations.
An aqueduct is a man-made channel that is built to transport water from one area to another, usually a big city. The Croton system was built to transport drinking water to New York City. The Croton system runs from Croton to the end of New York. I think that the croton aqueduct is in the developed catagory because it has been in use for over 100 years. The Croton aqueduct is under the water is under the water level so the aqueduct is pushed by preasure.
Part 3: Q1:How does New York City get its water?
10 percent of New York Citys water comes from the Croton Resevoir it is brought to NY by an aqueduct that is 41 miles long. The other 90 percent is from the Catskills Delaware's watersheds this is all fresh water.
Q2: What role does your system, the biosphere, play in the process of cleaning the water that comes to our taps? Give examples of the purifying power of this system.
here Jonathon Lopez is testing the acidity of his own pee because each gruop had different designs to check if there hypothesis was true and Jonathons group obviously and something to do with his own pee.in the end his pee came out to be slightly acidic.
IN this picture as we started in the beging of the year trying to replicate water molecules. learning how the water molecules stick together. As we started learning.
1. Using your water log (and average water use from the days you logged), calculate what your average water use per year might be.
We had been in our class making models of the water molecules. We were modeling the part of and their polar and non-polar effects. We learned that water is polar so it can stick to other non-polar objects. The way we modeled is that we stuck together magnets to represent the way water always finds a way to stick back together.
