
Central Park was the first landscaped public park in the
United States. The Reservoir, named the "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Reservoir" in 1994, is a favorite Central Park attraction for joggers,
bird watchers, and tourists. It is located
between 86th and 96th and covers one eight of the park's surface. The reservoir is 40 feet deep and holds a
billion gallons of water. It was built between 1858 and 1862 as a
temporary water supply for New York City and was used to receive water from the Croton
Aqueduct via the northern gatehouse and
distribute it to Manhattan via the southern gatehouse. At that time the Reservoir
was called Lake Manahatta.

The Croton Aqueduct was New York’s first out-of city water supply.
It was a large and complex water
distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842. It
brought water by the force of gravity alone 41 miles (with the drop 13 inches per mile) from the Croton River in
Westchester County.
The reservoir was named after Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, the widow of
President John F. Kennedy, in 1994. Jacqueline
lived
at the 1040 Fifth Avenue, across the Reservoir.

In 1993, after 131 years of using, New York administration officials have decided
to stop pumping drinking water from the reservoir.
At the very beginning the reservoir had a 4- feet high cast
iron fence. But it was not enough and to prevent the large number of suicides
and a seven-foot high chain-link ugly fence
with barbed wire at the top around the
lake was built.
When scuba divers discovered a piece of the original fence
at the very bottom of the reservoir, the Central Park Conservancy in 2003 built
a steel fence with cast-iron ornamentation, closely resembling the original.
Starting from the summer 2010, the Reservoir's fountain is
back in action thanks to the efforts of the Central Park Conservancy. Fully restored and modernized to recycle the
water already in the Reservoir, the fountain will flow through the entire
summer and be turned off on winter months.
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