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Author Murphy, Kevin

Title Water for Hartford : the Story of the Hartford Water Works and the Metropolitan District Commission
Published Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (678 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Map of Hartford, 1836; Map of the Trout Brook System; Map of the Complete MDC System; Chapter 1 The Muddling Years; Chapter 2 The Breakthrough; Chapter 3 Building A Water Company; Chapter 4 The River Water Deteriorates; Chapter 5 The Dam Collapse of 1867; Chapter 6 The Drought of the 1870s; Chapter 7 Completion of the Trout Brook System; Chapter 8 The Nepaug Dam & Reservoir; Chapter 9 Graduation To Regional Supplier; Chapter 10 The East Branch Valley; Chapter 11 The Barkhamsted Reservoir
Chapter 12 A Circle Within A CycleAfterword; Author's Notes; Index
Summary How three men brought clean water to Hartford, on a massive scale
Notes Print version record
Subject Hartford Water Works -- History
Metropolitan District (Conn.) -- History
SUBJECT Hartford Water Works fast
Metropolitan District (Conn.) fast
Subject Waterworks -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History
Water-supply -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History
Water-supply engineering -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History
Water-supply
Water-supply engineering
Waterworks
Connecticut -- Hartford
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780819570802
081957080X
9780819571021
0819571024