Sentence examples for reservoir keeper from inspiring English sources
In 1866, the Croton Aqueduct Board built a house for a reservoir keeper to permit a day and night watch over the two bodies of water.
The reservoir keeper had other duties, too, including a regular stream of suicides; these included Oliver Perry Lewis, who stepped into the water in evening dress in 1889; and Ethel Reiss of Brooklyn, who in 1897 left a note identifying herself only as Titania and saying: "Never mind who I am, or why this is done.
The 1910 census taker recorded Walter J. Sager as the reservoir keeper in the house with his wife, Ophelia, and three children; in 1913, Mr. Sager assisted a professional diver known as Daredevil Jack Ferguson in clearing out a stuck valve in the southern gatehouse of the upper reservoir.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Reservoir Keeper's House in Williamsbridge a landmark last week.
In this case, no one ever thought to reproduce what was originally on the site -- the 1867 Reservoir Keeper's House, demolished 70 years ago -- and anyway, the new police station is only temporary, to be demolished in just a few years.
IN 1985, plans were developed for a restoration of the Central Park Precinct, built in 1870 as a stable, and last year a new, interim station house was completed in the parking lot -- more or less on the site of the reservoir keeper's house -- to permit the police to vacate the 1870 building during renovation.
Even so, there are reservoir keepers of a sort: 24-hour guards in the south gatehouse.
On the other hand, in order to guard against serious drought, current rules mandate that once the reservoirs are below flood stage, the keepers of the Cannonsville Reservoir valve need only release no more that 225 cubic feet per second, which will help meet flow targets downstream at Trenton, but which does little to protect trout in the heat of summer.
It celebrates the better angels of human nature by spotlighting the deep reservoir of empathy that resides within each of us to act as our brother's keeper.
The keeper's house was on the south side of the 86th Street transverse, between the first and second reservoirs.
