Posted by jeffcat on January 02, 2017 at 11:11:40 from (73.197.146.32):
In Reply to: O/t...the resevoir in NJ posted by larry@stinescorner on January 02, 2017 at 05:41:52:
Hey Larry I dont mean to step on your story a bit. Just to add to your story though. The guys on here don't know that there are two resevoirs. If you look on one of the maps apps. First is Spruce Run and the other is Round Valley. Water supply for north east new jersey. That means Newark, Jersey City, etc. Like 55 billion gallons in size. Round vally Was a Round valley at one time. One road into it if I remember correctly, and I am trying to remember if there were four or six farms all nessiled in there. Think it was six. This is going back close to 50 years ago but the huge pipe line they dug from Spruce to Round they used one of the very first of it's size hyraulic excavators on the east coast at the time. Twenty foot pipe. This is around 1956 - 1959. Now here is how you get water, and you think California's water system is crazy. The pump station is on the Delaware river. That goes to Spruce Run. Then it goes to Round Valley. Then it is pumped to NE Jersey. From one side of the state to the other. The dam they are working on is a huge pile of bolders that were so big a tractor trailer load was one or two bolders. There is another smaller dam also. The Valley is 150 feet deep and a bunch of people have drown with six or so still not found. I can remember them being built cause I was,around 8 or nine when my dad and I would drive up and take a look. When I was in Boy Scouts we camped several times up in the back woods north of Spruce Run. I have an original WW II war survey map of the area somewhere around. Larry I had no idea they had the water so low. I need to drive up there some time for a look see. Thanks for the info!
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