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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Introduction and overview of NYC water supply system
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Commissioner Rohit T Aggarwala introduces himself and provides an overview of New York City's water supply system. He describes the network of reservoirs and the sources of the city's water.
- The water supply comes from 19 collecting reservoirs upstate
- 10% of annual consumption typically comes from the Croton network, which is filtered
- 90% usually comes from the Delaware and Catskill watersheds, which are covered by the Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD)