This gives a beautiful sheet of water 21.1
square miles in area, with bold, rocky shores, and a depth at dam
of 72 feet. We secure the above capacity by uncovering but 22 per
cent of the reservoir bottom; and, as we shall presently see, we
shall rarely need more than half this storage, and probably not
oftener than once in ten years will we expose over 10 per cent of
the area. By building side dams to keep certain flats always flowed
this may be reduced to 5 per cent; and this area will be pretty
evenly distributed around 36 miles of uninhabited shore line,
leaving the reservoir open to no valid sanitary objections. On the
contrary, by relieving the remainder of the Passaic Basin of the
flood waters of the Pompton, which now flow large areas of flat
land during wet seasons, the sanitary condition of the valley would
be much improved.
In constructing this reservoir Mr. Vermeule stated that the following
work would be necessary:
The removal of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad from
the basin by changing the alignment for 6 miles.
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