The Amawalk Reservoir is a small reservoir in the New York City water supply system located in central-northern Westchester County, New York. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 202 and New York State Route 35 in the town of Somers, and is over 51 kilometres north of New York City. Part of the systems Croton Watershed, it was formed by impounding the middle of the Muscoot River, one of the tributaries of the Croton River. This reservoir was put into service in 1897, and was named after the original community of Amawalk, New York, which was inundated by the reservoir and relocated near the dam.
The reservoir is one of the smaller in NYC\’s water supply system. It is only about 4.8 kilometres long. It only holds about 25 million m3 of water at full capacity, and has a drainage basin of 52 square kilometres.
