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Golf, Green Roofs & Drinking Water Collide in the Bronx03-02-09 | News

Golf, Green Roofs & Drinking Water Collide in the Bronx




The new Croton Reservoir filtration plant sunk under Mosholu Golf Course in Van Cortlandt Park.
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Somebody wanted to build a water filtration center on the spot of a Bronx, NY golf-course driving range. Bad idea? It was until the architects decided to build the plant and keep the range.

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Even though it is full of drinking water, the $2.1 billion facility has to stay dry. The summer downpours and spring thaws that would otherwise buffet the green roof are naturally filtered and collected in innovative drains that route water around the entire 9-hole golf course. It apparently takes up to eight days for water to make its way around the circuit of irrigation.

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The facility is mostly underground, and the roof will doubles as a driving range, with the clubhouse and filtration pools creating a security barrier, medieval fortress style, protecting the water supply from evil terrorist attack. Security-ness says Ken Smith; ?EUR??,,????'?????<

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