New Croton Aqueduct

Built roughly parallel to the Old Croton Aqueduct, the New Croton Aqueduct was constructed to provide a large steady supply of water for New York City. The aqueduct runs from the New Croton Reservoir in Westchester County to the Jerome Park Reservoir in The Bronx, from which it distributes water to certain areas of the Bronx and Manhattan before emptying into Tunnel 1 of the Catskill/Delaware System. Due to numerous water quality issues, a filtration plant, the Croton Filter Plant, is being constructed within Van Cortlandt Park to improve the quality of water. Because of these quality problems, the Croton system is often bypassed or mixed with water from the Delaware and Catskill systems.