What is the Croton Water Supply System?
New York City gets its water from three water systems — Croton, Catskill and Delaware. Croton, which lies to the east of the Hudson, is the smallest and oldest of the three and supplies New York City with 10 percent of the city’s average daily demand of 1.4 billion gallons per day and up to 30 percent in times of drought. The Croton is made up of 12 reservoirs and three controlled lakes on the Croton River and its tributaries and branches in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties in New York and Fairfield County in Connecticut. Filtration is currently not required for the Catskill/Delaware system, which supplies the city with the remaining 90 percent of its waters supply. Who Drinks Croton Water? Nine million people in New York City and Westchester County. Croton water is mostly used in low-lying portions of the Bronx — west of the Jerome Park Reservoir in Kingsbridge, and in portions of the south and east Bronx. Much of Manhattan’s west side and large sections of its east side ar
