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Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria, Australia
The Western Treatment Plant provides a haven for tens of thousands of birds and encompasses a diverse and complex array of habitats, vegetation and wildlife.
The Crossness Pumping Station was built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of Victorian London's urgently needed main sewerage system. It was officially opened by the Prince of Wales in April 1865.
The Beam Engine House is a Grade 1 Listed Industrial Building constructed in the Romanesque style and features some of the most spectacular ornamental Victorian cast ironwork to be found today. It also contains the four original pumping engines (although the cylinders were upgraded in 1901), which are possibly the largest remaining rotative beam engines in the world, with 52 ton flywheels and 47 ton beams. Although modern diesel engines were subsequently introduced, the old beam engines remained in service until work on a new sewerage treatment plant commenced in 1956. Following abandonment in the mid 1950's, the engine house and engines were systematically vandalised and left to decay, which greatly impeded the Trust's restoration/conservation programme.
The Crossness Engines Trust, a registered charity, was set up in 1987 to restore the installation which represents a unique part of Britain's industrial heritage and an outstanding example of Victorian engineering. A large part of the restoration work so far carried out has been done entirely by an unpaid volunteer workforce
Adjacent to Cromford Canal path.
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The Crossness Pumping Station was built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of Victorian London's urgently needed main sewerage system. It was officially opened by the Prince of Wales in April 1865.
The Beam Engine House is a Grade 1 Listed Industrial Building constructed in the Romanesque style and features some of the most spectacular ornamental Victorian cast ironwork to be found today. It also contains the four original pumping engines (although the cylinders were upgraded in 1901), which are possibly the largest remaining rotative beam engines in the world, with 52 ton flywheels and 47 ton beams. Although modern diesel engines were subsequently introduced, the old beam engines remained in service until work on a new sewerage treatment plant commenced in 1956. Following abandonment in the mid 1950's, the engine house and engines were systematically vandalised and left to decay, which greatly impeded the Trust's restoration/conservation programme.
The Crossness Engines Trust, a registered charity, was set up in 1987 to restore the installation which represents a unique part of Britain's industrial heritage and an outstanding example of Victorian engineering. A large part of the restoration work so far carried out has been done entirely by an unpaid volunteer workforce
Cast iron gentlemen's Urinal by Stevens Bro's London. (1925 ish)
The pee was washed away from the floor of the urinal into the ground by rainwater from the roof!
Abbey Pumping Station is Leicester's Museum of Science and Technology, and houses exhibitions on light and optics, historic transport and public health.
Opened in 1891, the Abbey Pumping Station pumped Leicester's sewage to the treatment works at Beaumont Leys and the grand Victorian building and beautifully decorated beam engines were a cause of great civic pride. The building closed as a pumping station in 1964.
www.leicester.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/museums-and-gall...
Team RAD came over from Vancouver Saturday to let the locals experience what they've been missing in electric-assist bicycles. They are just here for the day and are not permitting any sales. RAD sales are online only.
July Update:
Too bad they do not supply the Canadian market. I finally gave up on them and bought an ebike locally. Why they wasted their time coming to Victoria to demo a bicycle they do not have is beyond me.
The Crossness Pumping Station was built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of Victorian London's urgently needed main sewerage system. It was officially opened by the Prince of Wales in April 1865.
The Beam Engine House is a Grade 1 Listed Industrial Building constructed in the Romanesque style and features some of the most spectacular ornamental Victorian cast ironwork to be found today. It also contains the four original pumping engines (although the cylinders were upgraded in 1901), which are possibly the largest remaining rotative beam engines in the world, with 52 ton flywheels and 47 ton beams. Although modern diesel engines were subsequently introduced, the old beam engines remained in service until work on a new sewerage treatment plant commenced in 1956. Following abandonment in the mid 1950's, the engine house and engines were systematically vandalised and left to decay, which greatly impeded the Trust's restoration/conservation programme.
The Crossness Engines Trust, a registered charity, was set up in 1987 to restore the installation which represents a unique part of Britain's industrial heritage and an outstanding example of Victorian engineering. A large part of the restoration work so far carried out has been done entirely by an unpaid volunteer workforce
North District Wastewater Treatment Plant in North Miami Beach, Florida aerial view - © 2023 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions aerial photography archives - performanceimpressions.com
June 23, 2006
What Goes Down Drain Eventually Bobs Up Here
By COREY KILGANNON
The best places to see the celebrated products of New York — its
Broadway talent, its skyscraper architecture — are well known.
But the best place to see Manhattan's byproducts — what is stuffed
down its sinks, flushed down its toilets and washed from its gutters —
cannot be found in tour guides. There is perhaps no better vantage
point than the Manhattan Grit Chamber, which strains solids from much
of the borough's sewage as it flows underground to the Wards Island
Wastewater Treatment Plant.
"This is where it all winds up," said John Ahern, who oversees the
chamber, a large building at the eastern end of 110th Street in
Manhattan, next to Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive.
The Manhattan chamber handles sewage from much of the Upper East Side
and Upper Manhattan, which makes up about a third of the city's total.
From the baby's bathwater to the dead rat washed down a curbside storm
drain, from a slop sink at Gracie Mansion to a Washington Heights
bodega bathroom, it all goes into the street sewers, which, in their
intricate latticework, are laid out so that the sewage flows by
gravity to one large main bound for a tunnel running under the East
River to the plant on Wards Island, surrounded by Manhattan, Queens
and the Bronx. There it is cleaned of toxins and released as purified
water into the river.
To keep the tunnel clear, grit and other solid materials must be
strained before the sewage enters. That's where the chamber comes in.
It was opened in 1937 along with the Wards Island plant and the city's
other grit chamber in the Bronx and strains sewage from the west
Bronx. It also feeds the Wards Island plant.
At the Manhattan chamber, sewage enters through a 12-foot-wide main
and flows into a basement room, where it is split into four canals,
slowing its flow so that solids settle to the bottom. The sediment is
collected by an arm that sweeps the bottom of the canal and empties
into buckets that automatically rinse the grit and lift it up to the
ground floor, where it is deposited in metal bins.
The detritus floating in the channels — yesterday, this included
cigarette butts, bottle caps, plastic bottles, candy wrappers and
plastic spoons — is skimmed out by a rake and pulled up an incline
called a screen climber, which resembles an escalator, and is also
deposited into bins.
They sit at the foot of the elegant columns gracing the building's Art
Deco lobby, one of the aging Art Deco features in the building that
are being restored. The refined architecture is at odds with the
omnipresent stench.
The strained waste water proceeds along the canals and through sluice
gates, then drops several hundred feet down a shaft into a
nine-foot-wide tunnel running as much as 500 feet below the East River
to the plant.
The bins of accumulated solids, called "screenings," are frequently
dumped by forklift into larger ones for transport to Wards Island and
are held there until they are shipped to landfills out of state. The
whole process is costly, and might be less so if people paid more
attention to what they flush down the drain, city officials say.
The containers each hold 10 cubic yards. "We fill about two or three
of those on a busy day," Mr. Ahern said.
A busy day comes when it rains. The chamber handles about 100 million
gallons of sewage a day — more than double that when it rains and the
storm drains and street sewers are flooded. The flow increases
enormously, and the whole operation goes into overdrive. The sewage
treatment workers head for higher ground upstairs.
Yesterday, everything in the cavernous basement room was spattered
with dried rags and detritus, reaching up to a high-water mark on the
wall about eight feet up.
"We haven't had any rain in a few days so the flow is a little slow,"
he said. "But when it rains, this whole room can get flooded out. It
comes in like a deluge."
Mr. Ahern is the superintendent of the Wards Island plant, which,
after Newtown Creek, is the largest of the city's 14 treatment plants.
The list of things he has seen and seen strained from New Yorkers'
sewage provide enough fodder for a one-man show.
For starters, he pointed into a bin of screenings. There were mostly
rags, soiled paper towels, condoms, rubber gloves, MetroCards, dental
floss and tampon applicators — that and a dead rat. There is no demure
way of describing other contents.
"Sometimes you find money," he said, looking into the bins. "We get a
lot of stuffed animals, anything kids throw down the toilet. We don't
get much feces or toilet paper because it gets dissolved into the
flow.
"We get a lot of turtles and fish. We got a carp this big," he said,
holding his hands 15 inches apart. "We've had a canoe come in here; it
got caught on the screen. We've had pieces of telephone poles,
Christmas trees. Oh, you name it — mattresses, dead dogs. We got a
live dog once.
"Once we got this thing: it was a wire that started gathering rags and
stuff in the sewer and just grew like a snowball and came washing in,
a big ball of garbage," he said. "We called it the Volkswagen."
He stood on a catwalk between the canals and looked down at the dark
gray waters, pocked with bubbles.
"That's from the methane gas released by the sediment," he said.
And yes, the sewers sometimes become a grave for the unfortunate.
"We've had a few dead bodies," he said. "We got a homeless woman, but
it's mostly men. Once we had a guy who was shot. The last one we had
was a homeless guy, a few years ago in the Bronx. They go into the
manholes to look for jewelry and money, and then they get overcome
with gas, go unconscious and die down there. When we get a dead body,
we shut down the operation and call the cops."
The seaside area of West Hove and Portslade (Shoreham Port) is somewhat less touristy than Brighton Beach and Hove Lawns. Here lies Shoreham Power Station and a Sewage Treatment Plant, amongst the industrial rugged coastal landscape.
This photo was taken in the strong low afternoon sun of winter. I think it might be a of a sludge tank, or possible aeration tank. Any keen sewage enthusiasts out there please feel free to pass on your wisdom.
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Ames Crosta Mills were based in Heywood, Lancashire and were manufacturers of sewage purification plants that were used to equip sewage works. It is a vital job - but not exactly an 'easy sell' - this, one of their brochures, has a really fine front cover - a map of Scotland in almost 18th century style complete with blowing winds (possibly removing the odours) and the sites of the company's equipment in Scotland,
This brochure has a tale - I've seen it and picked it up on almost every trip to a friend's bookshop for, ooh over a decade, and today I finally weakened. Years of saying 'why do I need a brochure on sewage works?' has finally come to a crashing end!
The artist is given as 'Burns'.
Routine check done by the sewage treatment plant staff in Delawas, Jaipur. The plant is part of the ADB best practices projects list. Teams from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Philippines have visited the plant to study its model.
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Sewage treatment plant in Kavoor, Mangalore, India. Part of objectives of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project includes preparation of a Mangalore urban waterfront rehabilitation plan.
Project Result:
Delivering Basic Services to Communities on India’s Karnataka Coast
India Sanitation: Investments Make Coastal Cities More Livable
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Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
Sewage treatment plant in Kavoor, Mangalore, India. Part of objectives of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project includes preparation of a Mangalore urban waterfront rehabilitation plan.
Project Result:
Delivering Basic Services to Communities on India’s Karnataka Coast
India Sanitation: Investments Make Coastal Cities More Livable
Read more on:
Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
Manhattan Grit Chamber (architect unidentified, 1937). Functionally, this is an outlying piece of NYC's first monumentally-scaled sewage treatment works (over on Wards Island). Here, bulky solid objects (mostly from street/stormwater drains) are removed by screens, and "grit" particles (inorganic dirt, sand, coffee grounds) get settled out, protecting pipes and pumps which would get clogged by this material further down the line. Architecturally, this cubic volume of light tan brick gets a streamlined version of a Classical facade, with just a hint of a pediment and simplified ornamental detail throughout. Note the bold rounded Art Deco letterforms, the zigzag patterns in shallow relief, and the flattened pilasters (with smooth, convex bands standing in for flutes). In the context of sewage-treatment architecture, it's easy to read this as a transition piece from the more conventional classicism of the Wards Island works themselves, to the streamlined look of the other late-30s complexes.
FDR Drive and Tito Puente Way / E. 110th Street, Manhattan.
(I have a feeling I do have an architect for this one somewhere in my dissertation notes - will come back and update someday, hopefully.)
An advert from the highly informative 1955 official guide issued by the West Riidng of Yorkshire County Council. Most British local authorities issued such books, often produced for them as this is by the Cheltenham concern of E. Burrow. They describe the Council's services, the charms of the county, its boroughs and cities and the opportunities for both residential and industrial development. They are often a real 'snapshot' of the place at that time.
Many councils produced various by-products such as fertilizers as adjuncts to their gas, cleansing or sewage undertakings but Bradford was probably the only one who had an entirely separate Department to manufacture and market such produsts as listed here. As can be seen they made the proud boast that they were "the largest producers of wool grease in the world" - not a claim to be made lightly one suspects - and this was due to a simple, local situation. Bradford was one of the centres of the woollen trade and so their waste water contained a high concentration of lanolin and wool fats. This ended up at the City's vast Esholt sewage works where it was economically viable to seperate the products as part of the water treatment - thus saving the River Aire from even more pollution as well as making valuable by-products. Where there's muck, there's brass as they say.
With the collapse of the woollen textile trades the availability of such products and therefore their production at Esholt has ceased. The waste water works is still there, now run by Yorkshire Water.
Out of the Archives: Sludge Vessel Tallman Island, one of the first of its kind, built during the late 1930s wave of sewage treatment modernization. Sludge is the organic material removed from wastewater. Back then, the vessels carried sludge out into the ocean to keep the local waters clean, but for over thirty years now, they’ve transported it from treatment plants without dewatering facilities to those that do have the infrastructure needed to finish the treatment process.
We digitized these glass lantern slides by scanning each twice (once transparent to capture the photograph and once reflective to capture the mount), then merging the scans to create a faithful reproduction of the entire object. This improves access to images that originally required an antique projector for viewing and helps to preserve the fragile slides by minimizing future handling.
Photo taken circa 1940.
(Image ID: p049747)
Out of the Archives: A captain’s-eye view of Sludge Vessel Tallman Island, one of the first of its kind, built during the late 1930s wave of sewage treatment modernization. Its sister ship the Coney Island is in the background. Sludge is the organic material removed from wastewater. Back then, the vessels carried sludge out into the ocean to keep the local waters clean, but for over thirty years now, they’ve transported it from treatment plants without dewatering facilities to those that do have the infrastructure needed to finish the treatment process.
We digitized these glass lantern slides by scanning each twice (once transparent to capture the photograph and once reflective to capture the mount), then merging the scans to create a faithful reproduction of the entire object. This improves access to images that originally required an antique projector for viewing and helps to preserve the fragile slides by minimizing future handling.
Photo date: December 16, 1941.
(Image ID: p049709)
Departing SJC.
The San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant is one of the largest advanced wastewater treatment facilities in California. It treats and cleans the wastewater of over 1,500,000 people that live and work in the 300-square mile area encompassing San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Saratoga, and Monte Sereno.
The Water Pollution Control Plant has the capacity to treat 167,000,000 gallons of wastewater per day. It is located in Alviso, at the southernmost tip of the San Francisco Bay. Originally constructed in 1956, the Plant had the capacity to treat 36,000,000 gallons of water per day and only provided primary treatment. In 1964, the Plant added a secondary treatment process to its system. In 1979, the Plant upgraded its wastewater treatment process to an advanced, tertiary system.
Most of the final treated water from the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant is discharged as fresh water through Artesian Slough and into South San Francisco Bay. About 10% is recycled through South Bay Water Recycling pipelines for landscaping, agricultural irrigation, and industrial needs around the South Bay.
Original Caption: Spokane River - West of Spokane and Downstream From the City Sewage Treatment Plant 05/1973
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Worker assigned to maintain cleanliness of the surrounding area of the sewage treatment plant in Delawas, Jaipur. The plant is part of the ADB best practices projects list. Teams from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Philippines have visited the plant to study its model.
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Routine check done by the sewage treatment plant staff in Delawas, Jaipur. The plant is part of the ADB best practices projects list. Teams from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Philippines have visited the plant to study its model.
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Worker assigned to maintain cleanliness of the surrounding area of the sewage treatment plant in Delawas, Jaipur. The plant is part of the ADB best practices projects list. Teams from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Philippines have visited the plant to study its model.
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Thumbay Water Treatment Plant in Karnataka, India. The project aimed to improve the living conditions of about 1.2 million people in ten coastal towns - which constitute 80 percent of the urban population of the coastal region - while protecting the environment and valuable natural resources.
Project Result:
Delivering Basic Services to Communities on India’s Karnataka Coast
India Sanitation: Investments Make Coastal Cities More Livable
Read more on:
Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
Sewage treatment plant in Karnataka. Part of objectives of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project includes water supply rehabilitation and expansion, and improve urban environment quality.
Project Result:
Delivering Basic Services to Communities on India’s Karnataka Coast
India Sanitation: Investments Make Coastal Cities More Livable
Read more on:
Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
Project Result:
Delivering Basic Services to Communities on India’s Karnataka Coast
India Sanitation: Investments Make Coastal Cities More Livable
Read more on:
Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
The water treatment plant processes the water before being supplied to the various water tanks of the city. Part of objectives of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project includes water supply rehabilitation and expansion, and improve urban environment quality.
Project Result:
Delivering Basic Services to Communities on India’s Karnataka Coast
India Sanitation: Investments Make Coastal Cities More Livable
Read more on:
Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
Sewage treatment plant in Delawas, Jaipur. The plant is part of the ADB best practices projects list. Teams from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Philippines have visited the plant to study its model.
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Water being pumped into a treatment plant in Suvarna River, Karnataka. The project aimed to improve the living conditions of about 1.2 million people in ten coastal towns - which constitute 80 percent of the urban population of the coastal region - while protecting the environment and valuable natural resources.
Project Result:
Delivering Basic Services to Communities on India’s Karnataka Coast
India Sanitation: Investments Make Coastal Cities More Livable
Read more on:
Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project