This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for geographic features. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources:  "Chicopee Valley Aqueduct" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  "Chicopee Valley Aqueduct" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this message) ( Learn how and when to remove this message)

Chicopee Valley Aqueduct
Chicopee Valley Aqueduct access shaft
Coordinates	42°16′59″N 72°20′36″W / 42.28306°N 72.34333°W / 42.28306; -72.34333
Begins	Quabbin Reservoir
Ends	Chicopee
Official name	Chicopee Valley Aqueduct
Maintained by	MWRA
Characteristics
Total length	13.1 mi (21.08 km)
First section length	4.5 mi (7.24 km)
First section diameter	48 in (121.92 cm)
Second section length	8.6 mi (13.84 km)
Second section diameter	36 in (91.44 cm)
Capacity	20 cu ft/s (0.566 m3/s)
History
Construction start	1947
Opened	1950
Location

The Chicopee Valley Aqueduct carries water from the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts to the Chicopee city line. It delivers Quabbin water to Wilbraham, South Hadley fire district #1, and Chicopee. It is part of the Chicopee River Watershed.

History

In 1947, the Massachusetts Legislature authorized the construction of the aqueduct, which was completed three years later.

Present day

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority initiated the Chicopee Valley Aqueduct Pipeline Redundancy project to provide redundancy and to improve reliability to the Chicopee Valley Aqueduct water transmission system to the three already served communities. The design phase was completed in 2001. Construction of a redundant barrel was substantially completed in 2008. ^[1]

Notes

References

• Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Water System History, accessed on 2006-10-08
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060728225354/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/news/2005-10.htm, accessed on 2006-10-08