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Digital Cameras Help Solve Mystery of Leaking Aqueduct

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Brent D. Johnson

When New York's water supply began turning up in lakes and pools around Ulster and Orange counties, it was assumed that the 45-mile, 900-ft-deep upstate water tunnel had sprung a leak. But Water Department engineers didn't know how to pinpoint the source. They considered it to be too dangerous to drain the tunnel for a manual inspection, which hadn't been attempted since 1958, because the absence of pressure from water flowing through the tunnel might cause the aqueduct to collapse. The city turned to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and to one of its robotic deep-sea...Read full article

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