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Girl Scouts visit the Keeper's House

Author: 
Jim Beirne
Post date: 
04/27/2022 - 8:27am

At the Keeper's House last Saturday, April 23, it was a gathering of pre-teen Brownies and the only centenarian they are likely to meet in their lives! Ellie Carran celebrated her 100th birthday to a Brownie led chorus of the Happy Birthday song. The Brownies, fresh off International Water Day, were eager to delve into the Keeper's House exhibits. Several future engineers tackled the blocks to create their own arches. They repeated the gravity ball exhibit until it was snack time.

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Celebrate Trails Day on the OCA and Creation of a Pollinator Garden

Author: 
FOCAAdmin
Post date: 
04/25/2022 - 2:54pm

by Jasena Sareil on behalf of the GPTF

 

Over 30 volunteers (ranging from 3 year-olds to seniors) gathered to remove invasive plants and to create a pollinator garden along the wall of the Irvington Estates on the Aqueduct.

We worked from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Ellie Carren Celebrates 100th Birthday on the Trail

Author: 
SaraKelsey
Post date: 
04/25/2022 - 8:25am

Ellie Carren, longtime hike leader for Westchester Trails Association, Adirondack Mountain Club (Mohican Chapter) and the Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct invited her friends and family to join her on Saturday, April 23rd for a hike to celebrate her 100th birthday. The walk, a little shy of the 6-mile round trip between her home in Irvington and the Keepers House that she regularly travels these days, began and ended on the Aqueduct at Dows Lane in Irvington.

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The New Croton Maid

Author: 
TTarnowsky
Post date: 
04/18/2022 - 8:02am

Photo from NYC Water Flickr page

This custom modified vehicle was used to traverse lengths of the recently concrete lined Delaware Aqueduct in 1949. It served much the same inspection purpose as the original "Croton Maid", a custom made flat bottom boat used to inspect the interior of the Old Croton Aqueduct in 1842 before it was put into service. The Delaware Aqueduct is the newest NYC aqueduct, delivering water to NYC from the western Catskill Mountains. The last reservoir in the Delaware system was completed in the early 1960's.

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Twenty Years of the Friends' Printed Newletters

Author: 
FOCAAdmin
Post date: 
04/16/2022 - 11:44am

The Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct produced a print newsletter from 1998 to 2017. In the interests of preserving this resource and making it available to others, all issues are now posted on the Friends’ website, together with a Contents for each and a link to download the full PDF of individual issues.

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