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.
This day we went on a trip to Qeens to visit this processing plant forgarbage. We also took a visit to new town creek. The dirtiest creek in the world.
This day we went on deck. The boat we were on was a 200 year old steel sail boat. The captians name was Magno. On the boat we learned about all different animal in the hudson river. We also learned how to map and read nautical charts and how the polution can effect estiuaries like the New York Harbour.
There are many properties of water both phyical and chemical. Although there are many properties of water many scientist think that there are only a few extremely important ones. Two of these properties are adhesion and cohesion. Cohesion and adhesion are two physical properties, cohesion is the property that enables water to stick to itself. This property is the reasion that trees can getwater from the ground to there roots to the top of the trees. adhesion is the property of water that allows itself to stick to other things.
