It's absolutely fascinating to me how much work went into the infrastructure of these projects way back then when much of the heavy equipment was not available, hats off to all of the people that made this happen! You are what made this country great!
I grew up 8 miles west of Grand Gorge and spent many a Sunday afternoon fishing the Gilboa. Half my family was from Gilboa township. Excellent work you have done here.
I grew up in Vails Gate, and our property was cut in two by the Catskill Aqueduct- it was behind out house that I believe it dropped straight down and then made the run to Cornwall. The aqueduct runs right next to Riley Road or within a few hundred feet from our house north about 1.5 miles before making a sharp turn to the northwest.
I’ve lived in Westchester all my life and I never heard anybody call it the Kenseecoo.. we call it Kensico as in Ken sicko. Small detail great video been to many of these places and it is truly a marvel.
Great video! I live right near the Catskill aqueduct in Yorktown and they’re doing quite a bit of work on it in preparation for the shutdown and repair of the Delaware tunnel under the hudson. Cool to see these large engineering projects.
My family has lived just north of the Gilboa res. for the past 200 yrs. NYC takes and takes from upstate and does absolutely nothing for the valley that supplies them. They keep wiping out more and more of the valley untill it is gone it has been their plans for years to wipe out the valley so they could move the dams down into Breakabeen or Fultonham at a narrow in the valley to combine water and power. They have no care for anyone or anything down stream of their dams. The Gilboa sat in disrepair for more than 40 yrs with no maintence done to it at all. They should have been shut down and made to remove all dams after what they did to the valley during Irene they had a week or more of notice that a hurricane was coming and neither the Gilboa are the power project was drained down at all and their cover up that we get every time they flood us is they are not flood control. Yet when the Gilboa was built a flood tunnel was built into it to drain it down but they neglected it for so many years that it is plugged and no longer opened when all it takes to keep it clear is opening it every now and then and let the water do it's thing in cleaning it. And the power project should have never been an earthen dam you do not put an earth dam right below another dam with only 2 gates that do not work without power. Irene could have been controlled if they drained down both dams when it was first prodicted it was headed in our direction. The dam that broke in Windham from the hurricane could have been contained in the Gilboa dam. There needs to be a law put in place on NYC that these dams needs to be lowered before storms like Irene hit. They endanger many lives downstream with no care as long as they can rob our valley for water and electric.
That's flat out untrue. NYC pays hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes annually to the counties this pipeline runs through for access. I am a tax paying resident of Ulster County, NYC is one of the largest contributors to tax revenue in the entire county. It's not a perfect system, but they are certainly not "taking" anything.
@@amoore311 NYC has payed crap to Schoharie for the lost in property caused by their mismanagement and they pay crap for taxes to Schoharie county. We should be receiving millions for all the years they have not payed and for the damage they have caused in the valley but they pay pennies to schoharie county while residents live in fear from the year of neglect and mismanagement. We have lost hundreds and thousands of homes and property that should be on tax roll that are no longer because of the bull crap from both NYC water supply and power authority. NYC does nothing but drain upstate and should be shut down for their abuse.
Born and raised in Brooklyn NY, but as a child vacationed summers up in the Catskills , even for a time somewhat recently living in Wappingers Falls. It always amazed me just how polar opposite the two regions of NY are. And the overall diversity of living type within the state as a whole. NY you can live in the southern most islands region of the state. Manhattan , long island , staten island, the city of NY and the Island Beach life. Along the eastern most tip the more new-england lifestlye , boating farming and fishing villages. ANd upstate NY, the mountains the sticks, the farms open fields, rivers, lakes, forests and such. Beautiful country. And thats the irony, the very southern like country likeness to upstate ny. as if someone picked up tennesee and plopped it in the state of NY. Even the peoples accent is that of somewhere between a texan and a canadian.
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Dear Sir maybe you can help me I was born in Livingston Manor in 1954 I'm trying to locate the shaft that was Dug near there for new york auquduct my grandmother lived around there and i was born in her house. I have no other info but was trying to find her house she has long since been past
@@DeadDanganronpaGuy Henry Hudson sailed up the river thinking he had found the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean because the water was salty up to around the present day site of the NY State capital, Albany.
It's absolutely fascinating to me how much work went into the infrastructure of these projects way back then when much of the heavy equipment was not available, hats off to all of the people that made this happen! You are what made this country great!
I grew up 8 miles west of Grand Gorge and spent many a Sunday afternoon fishing the Gilboa. Half my family was from Gilboa township. Excellent work you have done here.
I grew up in Vails Gate, and our property was cut in two by the Catskill Aqueduct- it was behind out house that I believe it dropped straight down and then made the run to Cornwall. The aqueduct runs right next to Riley Road or within a few hundred feet from our house north about 1.5 miles before making a sharp turn to the northwest.
I’ve lived in Westchester all my life and I never heard anybody call it the Kenseecoo.. we call it Kensico as in Ken sicko. Small detail great video been to many of these places and it is truly a marvel.
Great video. Thanks for your efforts. I'm a water treatment plant operator, and love infrastructure videos.
Super awesome dude
What an awesome feat of imagination and solid engineering. And to think that it is still alive and well today is just mind blowing.
Beautiful scenery!
Amazing to learn this exists, fascinating video and I just love the old photos.
Great video! I live right near the Catskill aqueduct in Yorktown and they’re doing quite a bit of work on it in preparation for the shutdown and repair of the Delaware tunnel under the hudson. Cool to see these large engineering projects.
Great research. Amazing how these structures were built over a century ago on the backs of highly skilled people including immigrants
My family has lived just north of the Gilboa res. for the past 200 yrs. NYC takes and takes from upstate and does absolutely nothing for the valley that supplies them. They keep wiping out more and more of the valley untill it is gone it has been their plans for years to wipe out the valley so they could move the dams down into Breakabeen or Fultonham at a narrow in the valley to combine water and power. They have no care for anyone or anything down stream of their dams. The Gilboa sat in disrepair for more than 40 yrs with no maintence done to it at all. They should have been shut down and made to remove all dams after what they did to the valley during Irene they had a week or more of notice that a hurricane was coming and neither the Gilboa are the power project was drained down at all and their cover up that we get every time they flood us is they are not flood control. Yet when the Gilboa was built a flood tunnel was built into it to drain it down but they neglected it for so many years that it is plugged and no longer opened when all it takes to keep it clear is opening it every now and then and let the water do it's thing in cleaning it. And the power project should have never been an earthen dam you do not put an earth dam right below another dam with only 2 gates that do not work without power. Irene could have been controlled if they drained down both dams when it was first prodicted it was headed in our direction. The dam that broke in Windham from the hurricane could have been contained in the Gilboa dam. There needs to be a law put in place on NYC that these dams needs to be lowered before storms like Irene hit. They endanger many lives downstream with no care as long as they can rob our valley for water and electric.
That's flat out untrue. NYC pays hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes annually to the counties this pipeline runs through for access. I am a tax paying resident of Ulster County, NYC is one of the largest contributors to tax revenue in the entire county. It's not a perfect system, but they are certainly not "taking" anything.
@@amoore311 NYC has payed crap to Schoharie for the lost in property caused by their mismanagement and they pay crap for taxes to Schoharie county. We should be receiving millions for all the years they have not payed and for the damage they have caused in the valley but they pay pennies to schoharie county while residents live in fear from the year of neglect and mismanagement. We have lost hundreds and thousands of homes and property that should be on tax roll that are no longer because of the bull crap from both NYC water supply and power authority. NYC does nothing but drain upstate and should be shut down for their abuse.
Awww. Wa wa wa.@@mrbrown3462
Excellent job 👍
Very interesting. I live in NYC and never really thought about where we get our water. Amazing! Tastes good too!
It tastes so good because my septic field effluent eventually runs into it and NYC doesn't filter the water... bottoms up!
Thank you for all your work.
Really cool video! Thanks for putting in the effort. Great selection of music too. 😉
awesome! thta's a grate job done!
I love this video!
Born and raised in Brooklyn NY, but as a child vacationed summers up in the Catskills , even for a time somewhat recently living in Wappingers Falls. It always amazed me just how polar opposite the two regions of NY are. And the overall diversity of living type within the state as a whole. NY you can live in the southern most islands region of the state. Manhattan , long island , staten island, the city of NY and the Island Beach life. Along the eastern most tip the more new-england lifestlye , boating farming and fishing villages. ANd upstate NY, the mountains the sticks, the farms open fields, rivers, lakes, forests and such. Beautiful country. And thats the irony, the very southern like country likeness to upstate ny. as if someone picked up tennesee and plopped it in the state of NY. Even the peoples accent is that of somewhere between a texan and a canadian.
Really interesting - thanks!
I had no idea that they buried concrete sections like that! Crazy!
Awesome Ari!!!
I drive over the Esopus on Rt 28 a lot. Very interesting
Sound like a young Taofledermaus.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks
Ken-sick-o. It's pronounced Ken-sick-o. Aside from that minor detail, this is a great video! Great job and excellent topic.
Thank you for the clarification. If that is the only detail I got wrong in this entire video than I'm quite happy. Thanks for watching!
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Nice video. What was the intro music?
Dude, Where's My Horse by Nat Keefe with The Bow Ties
It's from the free music catalog so anyone can use it.
Dear Sir maybe you can help me I was born in Livingston Manor in 1954 I'm trying to locate the shaft that was Dug near there for new york auquduct my grandmother lived around there and i was born in her house. I have no other info but was trying to find her house she has long since been past
WHY THEY NEVER USED THE HUDSON RIVER WATER??
PLEASE LET ME KNOW THANKS
by the time it reaches near NYC it's already effectively part of the ocean and full of salt.
@@DeadDanganronpaGuy Henry Hudson sailed up the river thinking he had found the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean because the water was salty up to around the present day site of the NY State capital, Albany.
Gilboa. It had nothing to do with the hurricane.
Kensico is actually pronounced like San Francisco minus the s. Ken-cico
audio is not clear, hard to make out anything
please put microphone closer to your mouth