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Kesseler Woods for Sale Cpa May Make Purchase Possible
Working to preserve open space in Newton for 42 years! tthhee NNeewwttoonn CCoonnsseerrvvaattoorrss NNEEWWSSLLEETTTTEERR Winter Issue www.newtonconservators.org February / March 2003 KESSELER WOODS FOR SALE CPA MAY MAKE PURCHASE POSSIBLE For many it was déjà vu “all over again.” Back in 1997, Boston Edison had hastily put its property at Newton Conservators Lecture Series the intersection of LaGrange and Vine Streets on the market, seeking a quick turnaround. At that time, Don’t Miss Biologist Edison was being pressed by the Attorney General to divest of assets like West Kesseler Woods to offset JON REGOSIN the costs of restructuring and deregulation. After an Tufts University PhD Candidate appeal from then-Mayor Thomas Concannon, the company extended its bidding process from weeks to “FOCUS ON THE VERNAL months to allow the City of Newton time to put together a credible bid for the property—the last POOLS OF NEWTON” large undeveloped parcel of open space in the city. See Article on Page 7 Sound familiar? In January of 2003, NStar, which now owns many of the assets of Boston Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Edison, initiated the same game plan, play for play: 7:00 to 9:00 PM Quick sale through a short bidding process, Druker Auditorium, Newton Free Library effectively leaving the city without the time to prepare a credible offer. Appeal by Mayor Cohen to the company and the AG for a longer bid process. And finally, a four-month reprieve. PRESIDENT’S LETTER The difference this time is that we now have a By Lucy Caldwell-Stair source of funding. -
The Colorado River Aqueduct
Fact Sheet: Our Water Lifeline__ The Colorado River Aqueduct. Photo: Aerial photo of CRA Investment in Reliability The Colorado River Aqueduct is considered one of the nation’s Many innovations came from this period in time, including the top civil engineering marvels. It was originally conceived by creation of a medical system for contract workers that would William Mulholland and designed by Metropolitan’s first Chief become the forerunner for the prepaid healthcare plan offered Engineer Frank Weymouth after consideration of more than by Kaiser Permanente. 50 routes. The 242-mile CRA carries water from Lake Havasu to the system’s terminal reservoir at Lake Mathews in Riverside. This reservoir’s location was selected because it is situated at the upper end of Metropolitan’s service area and its elevation of nearly 1,400 feet allows water to flow by gravity to the majority of our service area The CRA was the largest public works project built in Southern California during the Great Depression. Overwhelming voter approval in 1929 for a $220 million bond – equivalent to a $3.75 billion investment today – brought jobs to 35,000 people. Miners, engineers, surveyors, cooks and more came to build Colorado River the aqueduct, living in the harshest of desert conditions and Aqueduct ultimately constructing 150 miles of canals, siphons, conduits and pipelines. They added five pumping plants to lift water over mountains so deliveries could then flow west by gravity. And they blasted 90-plus miles of tunnels, including a waterway under Mount San Jacinto. THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA // // JULY 2021 FACT SHEET: THE COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT // // OUR WATER LIFELINE The Vision Despite the city of Los Angeles’ investment in its aqueduct, by the early 1920s, Southern Californians understood the region did not have enough local supplies to meet growing demands. -
Historic Erie Canal Aqueduct & Broad Street Corridor
HISTORIC ERIE CANAL AQUEDUCT & BROAD STREET CORRIDOR MASTER PLAN MAY 2009 PREPARED FOR THE CITY OF ROCHESTER Copyright May 2009 Cooper Carry All rights reserved. Design: Cooper Carry 2 Historic Erie Canal AQUedUct & Broad Street Corridor Master Plan HISTORIC ERIE CANAL AQUEDUCT & BROAD STREET CORRIDOR 1.0 MASTER PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 1.1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 23 1.2 INTRODUCTION 27 1.3 PARTICIPANTS 33 2.1 SITE ANALYSIS/ RESEARCH 53 2.2 DESIGN PROCESS 57 2.3 HISTORIC PRECEDENT 59 2.4 MARKET CONDITIONS 67 2.5 DESIGN ALTERNATIVES 75 2.6 RECOMMENDATIONS 93 2.7 PHASING 101 2.8 INFRASTRUCTURE & UTILITIES 113 3.1 RESOURCES 115 3.2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Historic Erie Canal AQUedUct & Broad Street Corridor Master Plan 3 A city... is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man’s history, his struggle for freedom, creativity and genius. - Charles Abrams VISION STATEMENT: “Celebrating the Genesee River and Erie Canal, create a vibrant, walkable mixed-use neighborhood as an international destination grounded in Rochester history connecting to greater city assets and neighborhoods and promoting flexible mass transit alternatives.” 4 Historic Erie Canal AQUedUct & Broad Street Corridor Master Plan 1.1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CREATING A NEW CANAL DISTRICT Recognizing the unrealized potential of the area, the City of the historic experience with open space and streetscape initiatives Rochester undertook a planning process to develop a master plan which coordinate with the milestones of the trail. for the Historic Erie Canal Aqueduct and adjoining Broad Street Corridor. The resulting Master Plan for the Historic Erie Canal Following the pathway of the original canal, this linear water Aqueduct and Broad Street Corridor represents a strategic new amenity creates a signature urban place drawing visitors, residents, beginning for this underutilized quarter of downtown Rochester. -
Washita Basin Project Oklahoma
Washita Basin Project Oklahoma James M. Bailey, Ph.D. Bureau of Reclamation 2008 0 Table of Contents Table of Contents .............................................................................................................. 1 Washita Basin Project ...................................................................................................... 2 Physical Setting ............................................................................................................. 3 Prehistoric and Historic Setting .................................................................................. 4 Project Investigation and Authorization .................................................................. 11 Project Construction................................................................................................... 16 Uses of Project Water ................................................................................................. 30 Conclusion ................................................................................................................... 32 Bibliography .................................................................................................................... 33 Index................................................................................................................................. 35 1 Washita Basin Project Located adjacent to America’s arid west/humid east division line known as the 100th meridian, western Oklahoma’s rolling uplands are susceptible to unpredictable weather cycles. -
New York City's Water Story
New York City’s Water Story: From Mountain Top to Tap SCHOHARIE COUNTY Schoharie Reservoir 1,130 FEET Delaware Watershed Gilboa Catskill Watershed Stamford The water we use today is the same water that fell as C rain when dinosaurs roamed a D t Prattsville Siuslaw s DELAWARE COUNTY West Branch Delaware e k l i the earth. In its endless a l Windham l w a W r cycle, water is the only e a t W e GREENE COUNTY rs Schoharie Creek substance that naturally a h te e r d Grand Gorge sh exists as a solid, e d liquid or gas. Delhi Lenox Roxbury East Branch Delaware Hunter Tannersville Andes Walton HUNTER MOUNTAIN Water’s journey from 4,040 FEET mountain top to tap begins Margaretville Shandaken Tunnel when rain and snow fall on COLUMBIA COUNTY watersheds, the areas Massachusetts of land that catch, absorb, Downsville Phoenicia and carry water downhill to gently and swiftly Deposit Pepacton Woodstock flowing streams. Cannonsville Reservoir Reservoir 1,150 FEET 1,280 FEET Esopus Creek SLIDE MOUNTAIN Boiceville West Delaware Tunnel East Delaware Tunnel 4,180 FEET Streams provide life-cycle Neversink Frost Valley needs for fish and other RIver aquatic organisms. Oxygen is Ashokan Rondout trapped in the fresh water as Creek Reservoir Claryville Olivebridge 590 FEET Kingston it tumbles over rocks into deep pools. Overhanging tree branches keep water r C e A v cool as fresh water T i Grahamsville S K R DUTCHESS COUNTY continues its journey. IL L n Neversink A Neversink Reservoir Tunnel Q o s 1,440 FEET U s E d Liberty Rondout Reservoir d Water is naturally filtered D u u U 840 FEET U C C H H T by the soil and tree roots in T dense forests as it travels toward reservoirs. -
Simulation of Flows and Water Quality in the California Aqueduct Using DSM2
Simulation of Flows and Water Quality in the California Aqueduct Using DSM2 Siqing Liu, Bob Suits DWR, Bay Delta Office, Modeling Support Branch 2011 CWEMF Annual Meeting, February 28 –March 2 1 Topics • Project objectives • Aqueduct System modeled • Assumptions / issues with modeling • Model results –Flows / Storage, EC, Bromide 2 Objectives Simulate Aqueduct hydraulics and water quality • 1990 – 2010 period • DSM2 Aqueduct version calibrated by CH2Mhill Achieve 1st step in enabling forecasting Physical System Canals simulated • South Bay Aqueduct (42 miles) • California Aqueduct (444 miles) • East Branch to Silverwood Lake • West Branch to Pyramid Lake (40 miles) • Delta‐Mendota Canal (117 miles) 4 Physical System, cont Pumping Plants Banks Pumping Plant Buena Vista (Check 30) Jones Pumping Plant Teerink (Check 35) South Bay Chrisman (Check 36) O’Neill Pumping-Generating Edmonston (Check 40) Gianelli Pumping-Generating Alamo (Check 42) Dos Amigos (Check 13) Oso (West Branch) Las Perillas (Costal branch) Pearblossom (Check 58) 5 Physical System, cont Check structures and gates • Pools separated by check structures throughout the aqueduct system (SWP: 66, DMC: 21 ) • Gates at check structures regulate flow rates and water surface elevation 6 Physical System, cont Turnout and diversion structures • Water delivered to agricultural and municipal contractors through diversion structures • Over 270 diversion structures on SWP • Over 200 turnouts on DMC 7 Physical System, cont Reservoirs / Lakes Represented as complete mixing of water body • -
Aqueduct Global Maps 2.0
Working Paper AQUEDUCT METADATA DOCUMENT AQUEDUCT GLOBAL MAPS 2.0 FRANCIS GASSERT, MATT LANDIS, MATT LUCK, PAUL REIG, AND TIEN SHIAO EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CONTENTS This document describes the specific characteristics of the Executive Summary........................................................1 indicator data and calculations for the Aqueduct Water Risk Total water withdrawal....................................................2 Atlas Global Maps. Complete guidelines and processes for Consumptive and non-consumptive use........................5 data collection, calculations, and mapping techniques are Total blue water (Bt)....................................................... 6 described fully in the Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.1 The Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas makes use of a Water Risk Available blue water (Ba)................................................7 Framework (Figure 1), that includes 12 global indicators Baseline water stress......................................................8 grouped into three categories of risk and one overall score. Inter-annual variability................................................... 9 Seasonal variability......................................................10 Flood occurrence......................................................... 11 Aqueduct Water Risk Framework Figure 1 | Drought severity...........................................................12 Upstream storage.........................................................13 OVERALL WATER RISK Groundwater stress ......................................................14 -
Middle Potomac River Watershed Assessment: Potomac River Sustainable Flow and Water Resources Analysis
Middle Potomac River Watershed Assessment: Potomac River Sustainable Flow and Water Resources Analysis April 2014 Middle Potomac River Watershed Assessment: Potomac River Sustainable Flow and Water Resources Analysis United States Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District The Natural Conservancy Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin Final Report April 2014 Recommended citation: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Nature Conservancy, and Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. 2014. Middle Potomac River Watershed Assessment: Potomac River Sustainable Flow and Water Resources Analysis. Final Report. 107 pp. and 11 appendices. Cover photograph: Great Falls on the Potomac River as seen from Virginia. Jim Palmer (ICPRB) Middle Potomac River Watershed Assessment Abstract The Middle Potomac River Watershed Assessment (MPRWA) was a collaborative effort to assess the relationship between streamflow alteration and ecological response in the Potomac River and its tributaries in a study area defined as the Middle Potomac. The assessment is comprised of five distinct components: (1) a large river environmental flow needs assessment, (2) a stream and small rivers environmental flow needs assessment, (3) a projection of future water uses, (4) a stakeholder engagement process, and (5) development of a concept or scope for a strategic comprehensive plan for watershed management. This information can be used to balance and mitigate water use conflicts and prevent ecological degradation. To assess flow needs in the Potomac watershed, the Ecologically Sustainable Water Management (ESWM) approach was used for large rivers and the Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA) framework was adapted for streams and small rivers. In the large rivers included in this study, based on currently available information, there has been no discernible adverse ecological impact on focal species due to human modification of flows. -
Princetown Audio Walk Transcript
Transcript of Audio Walk for Princetown Peter Nash – Presenter Jackie Ridley, Sustainable Tourism Officer, Dartmoor National Park Authority Ella Briens, Ranger, Dartmoor National Park Authority Track 1 – Introduction, High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown (Grid reference SX 591 735) Hello and welcome to Dartmoor National Park and this audio walk encapsulating the ancient settlements, railways and quarries around Princetown. The town stands at 1400ft above sea level and is surrounded by beautiful open moorland, but is famous, or rather infamous for its prison. Still very much functioning today, and an institution rather dominating the town, we are going to be heading in the opposite direction to the prison, to take in some altogether older artefacts of mankind and nature on this beautiful area of Dartmoor National Park. As with all the Dartmoor National Park Authority audio walks, we’ve divided this audio tour into several sections, each one being a separate track for you to download onto your player, and that way you can simply switch off when you are walking, and then start playing the new track at the next point of interest and I’ll give you full directions when to do this in the audio itself. You’ll also find that the names of each track include the grid reference of where you should be, so that you can follow the tour using a standard Ordnance Survey map – in this case the Explorer OL28 for Dartmoor. Or you can download the accompanying map with this audio walk so that you can have a back-up to the instructions in the audio. -
Drainage Report City of Hesperia
DRAINAGE REPORT CITY OF HESPERIA C.O. 7094 RANCHERO ROAD AQUEDUCT CROSSING Ranchero Road Hesperia, CA 92345 Prepared for: City of Hesperia 9700 Seventh Avenue Hesperia, CA 92345 Prepared by: Cordoba Corporation 1611 East 17th Street Santa Ana, CA 92705 July 2019 Drainage Report July 3, 2019 Ranchero Road Aqueduct Crossing Version: Final Table of Contents SECTION 1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 PROJECT SCOPE ..................................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... 1 SECTION 2 SITE DESCRIPTION 2.1 TOPOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................................ 2 2.2 GEOLOGY AND SOILS ............................................................................................................................ 2 2.3 LAND USE .............................................................................................................................................. 2 SECTION 3 DRAINAGE CONDITIONS AND FACILITIES 3.1 EXISTING DRAINAGE CONDITIONS AND FACILITIES .............................................................................. 2 3.2 PROPOSED DRAINAGE CONDITIONS AND FACILITIES .......................................................................... -
Find It and Fix It Stormwater Program in the Charles and Mystic River Watersheds
FIND IT AND FIX IT STORMWATER PROGRAM IN THE CHARLES AND MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHEDS FINAL REPORT JUNE 2005 - AUGUST 2008 October 29, 2008 SUBMITTED TO: MASSACHUSETTS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS OFFICE OF GRANTS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 100 CAMBRIDGE STREET, 9TH FLOOR BOSTON, MA 02114 SUBMITTED BY: CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION 190 PARK ROAD 20 ACADEMY STREET, SUITE 203 WESTON, MA 02493 ARLINGTON, MA 02476 Table of Contents List of Figures................................................................................................................................. 3 List of Tables .................................................................................................................................. 5 Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 6 Organization of Report ................................................................................................................... 8 1.0 PROGRAM BACKGROUND............................................................................................ 9 1.1 Charles River.................................................................................................................. 9 1.1.1 Program Study Area................................................................................................ 9 1.1.2 Water Quality Issues............................................................................................ -
The Mill on the Leybourne Stream and Its Water Management in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 130 - 2010 THE MILL ON THE LEYBOURNE STREAM AND ITS WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES SIMON PRATT, PETER SEARY AND SHEILA SWEETINBURGH In 2004 the Canterbury Archaeological Trust undertook a desk-based assessment of the environs of the former watermill (TQ 68715 58485) at Leybourne (Fig. 1), along with the recording of a surviving wall of the mill and a contour survey of an area to its south and west. The same area was sampled by evaluation trenching the following year (Fig. 2). These investigations into the mill’s water-management system formed part of a much broader project, commissioned and coordinated by Kent County Council, to deal with the archaeological impact of the realignment of the A228 to bypass Leybourne and West Malling. The greater part of that project is reported upon elsewhere1 whilst much of the later history of the mill has been covered in an unpublished study,2 which its author generously made available. Though some of the various phases of undated, low-level water channels identified on the valley floor (Tr.11, 18, ?19, 24 and 24A) may have fed early mills mentioned in documentary sources, there was no clear evidence that they were so associated, nor that they had been artificially diverted from their natural course. Other than these channels, only two main phases of water-management system could be identified during fieldwork and it is upon them, and contemporary documentary evidence, that this article will concentrate. The first such phase (Fig. 3) included three or four leats or ditches (A-D), most probably feeding a small mill pond.