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Muscoot Reservoir

Reservoir in Appalachian Mountains in Katonah, NY

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The Muscoot Reservoir is a reservoir in northern Westchester County, New York located directly north of the village of Katonah. Part of the New York City Watershed System, it is 25 miles (40 kilometres) north of the City, which it supplies with drinking water. It was constructed at the beginning of the 19th century by impounding the Muscoot River, a tributary of the Croton River in turn is a tributary of the Hudson River. The reservoir was once much smaller, but the other side of the original dam was intentionally flooded to make the reservoir bigger, when a new dam was built downstream. The original dam is still standing, and divides the reservoir in two. During construction, the New York Central Railroad moved Bridge L-158 from the Rondout Creek near Kingston to carry its Mahopac Branch…

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