Water tunnel litigation files for 1972 to 1979
Description
The accession consists of legal papers, correspondence, and staff notes relating to the Water Tunnel Contractors suit against the City of New York and the City's Board of Water Supply and commissioners thereof. The suit was filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York and internal evidence suggests all of the following as citations to this case: 75 Civ. 877 (LPG); 75 Civ. 897; 75 Civ. 987; 79 Civ. 897. In October 1969, the Board of Water Supply issued a bid on the construction of Stage I of City Water Tunnel number 3. Stage I included excavation and concrete lining of approximately thirteen miles of a major new water supply facility to serve New York City residents. State I was divided into three contracts: Number 520, the Northern portion; Number 521, the Central portion; and Number 522, the Southern portion. Plaintiffs in this suit were the low bidders on all three contracts. Contracts required the work to be completed by February 1975. In December 1974, this job was only fifty percent complete. In July 1975, the Board of the Water Supply declared the plaintiffs to be in default in the performance of the three contracts. Plaintiffs claimed the City misrepresented “the nature of [geological] subsurface conditions to be encountered in performance of the contracts,” etc., and this lawsuit was filed as a result. Types of documents included are various notices, affidavits, transcripts of depositions and hearings before the United States Magistrate, etc., and correspondence and staff notes. Some rearrangement was performed at the time of accession to group-like documents/chronologies.
Extent
12.00 cubic feet
Dates
1972-1979
Record Groups
External Documents
Source
- New York (N.Y.). Law Department (Organization)
Creator
- New York (N.Y.). Law Department (Organization)
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