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A sunny day on the Windsor waterfront brought me to the old pump house on the Detroit River. It was built in 1914 following the disastrous 1871 fire in Windsor. The lack of suitable ways to bring water up from the river caused the destruction of many properties built primarily of wood. Watermains and hydrants were installed as well as widening streets for new buildings made of brick. The pumphouse worked well and was in operation until 1953. The Detroit skyline and Ambassador Bridge are in the background.
Another view of the beautiful brick detail on the old Windsor pump house on the Detroit River. It was built in 1914 following the disastrous 1871 fire in Windsor. The lack of suitable ways to bring water up from the river caused the destruction of many properties built primarily of wood. Watermains and hydrants were installed as well as widening streets for new buildings made of brick. The pumphouse was in operation until 1953.
We're finally experiencing what many Madisonians have gone through the last few years: A couple months of inconvenience as our crumbling infrastructure on and beneath our streets gets replaced: sewer lines, water mains, curbs and gutters, driveway aprons, pavement -- the whole deal. The big equipment moved in Monday, ready for action.
We arrived home from this morning's Sunday Service to discover that our water had been cut off. The first place I always look when this happens is to check our community Facebook Page to see what's happened - a burst watermain apparently .I've never seen so many people squabbling online in my life over something. I decided instead to spend my time with my camera and came up with this,.... it took as long to capture as it did for Welsh Water to fix the problem .
Just to add that it's similar to one that I captured last year except that the flowers here are another bunch of Wedding Anniversary Flowers.
Next: how to remove glue dots from my distance specs 😎
The road ripped apart like The Hulk before my very eyes and... coffee water gushed. The police came. Six lanes of traffic snarled. It was magnificent. So much pandemonium for a Thursday.
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This lock and chain are on a large watermain valve that leads to an apartment complex… to prevent mischievous folks from shutting off the residents’ water.
London Central E229, on roure 89, seen driving through a burst watermain. Shooters Hill Road, Blackheath.
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These old pipes have been changing colour for a long time. I love the colour of the patina.
To end the week we have a familiar scene but an unfamiliar variation and view of that scene! O'Connell Bridge in 1916, apparently after the Rising, with military figures around and works going on in the central island. What does the photograph tell us and when, exactly, was it taken?
Photographers: Unknown
Collection: Edward C. Chandler Photographic Collection
Date: 1916
NLI Ref: NPA CHA24
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Bridging the Worcester canal at Selly Oak is a 12 inch water main which forms part of the distribution system linked to the Elan Valley reservoirs. The position of the main was dictated by the pumping station which is visible between the pipe and the ramshackle bridge, the listed building is now an electricity sub-station.
43303 is leading 1V50 the 06.06 Edinburgh to Plymouth service, 43239 was the rear power car
Sewer (Storm and Sanitary Connection/Installation), Watermain, and Roadworks – Including Asphalt, Curb and Gutter, Sidewalk
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Someone found the watermain buried under Victoria Street - which this evening has a new role, as a river.
Another image in a long series of shots that I consider mental notes. In other words, it isn't the image I wanted, but rather is a record of something I'd like to remember to go back to when I have time (and tripod) to shoot properly. Anybody else have these? I have tons of them - if they were actually written out long hand they'd fill a room full of notebooks. I probably won't ever get back to half of them....
I know for sure I won't make it to this one. The only time it looks like this is when there is a watermain break and for some reason the city seemed to feel the need to jump on it pretty fast. It doesn't seem fair - just because a few (hundred) people are whining about having no water... Where's the love and consideration for the person who was whining about wanting better light? geesh. ;)
Out to Silverdale Creek Wetlands this morning and saw a Mama Mallard with a bunch of little ducklings. This site has been awkward to get into the last several months due to watermain construction. It is still going on but there seems to be limited parking a short distance away from the trail in.
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This is a Wide World Photo Inc press photograph showing the view looking east from the south side of Regent Street towards Piccadilly Circus. Despite the overcoats this is Tuesday 20th May 1941 and several uniformed figures can be seen, steel helmets are being carried and a Metropolitan Police Constable is walking towards the camera wearing his steel helmet and carrying his gas mask over his shoulder, not too many other people are carrying their gas masks though. There is the sign for a public bomb shelter on the lamppost right centre and it was certainly needed because in this small area of the Quadrant, up to seven bombs were dropped in the roadway and onto surrounding buildings during the war, but at the time of the photograph only one had hit this part of Regent Street and that was in the early hours of 11th September 1940. An unexploded bomb had lodged in the roadway between 88 and 94 on the northside about 25 yards further up Regent Street. A party of Royal Engineers together with a Government scientist named Dr. Arthur Merriman attended the scene and it was decided to steam the explosive charge out of the bomb casing, a large quantity of the explosive had been removed when the bomb exploded in the early evening. The damage caused was to plate glass windows and stone work was chipped, the Café Royal which is on the left just before the covered pavement, which in my time was known as the “Meat Rack”, was more extensively damaged and water and gas mains were disrupted. From the photograph, which was taken about eight months later, you wouldn’t think anything had happened. Dr. Merriman was subsequently awarded the George Cross. The film playing at the London Pavilion is an American film which changed its name crossing the Atlantic, the Abbott and Costello film “Buck Privates” became “Rookies” for the UK audience. The film ran from 5th May for most of the month and featured the Andrews Sisters who sang probably their most famous song, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Best viewed with the zoom feature.
Pump Station No. 5 was originally constructed at the Water Works Fridley site in 1925. The "low side" of the Pump Station pumps raw water from the Mississippi River into the Softening Plant at the Fridley site. The "high side" of the station (shown here) pumps finished (treated) water to the customers in the City through the Water Distribution System (watermains).
Approximately 21 billion gallons of water are pumped from the Mississippi River each year by Minneapolis Water Treatment & Distribution Services. 40% of this capacity is used by Minneapolis residents. 22% is used by the residents of Golden Valley, Crystal, New Hope, Columbia Heights, Hilltop, New Brighton, and Edina’s Morningside neighborhood. 38% is used for institutional, commercial and industrial purposes.
Ipswich Buses DAF Lowlander working a limited shuttle service taking passengers from Brantham to Holbrook Royal Hospital School whilst watermain works continue in Holbrook. Usually operated by an Optare Solo but of course something unusual was bound to slip on there eventually.
56 pauses at Gravel Pit Lane, Brantham, before beginning its next journey.
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My son, Craig, photographing detail of a 20ft long memorial quilt in aToronto subway station... We had an afternoon of visiting a number of art installations in the subway system... This massive and beautiful quilt was made by a Nova Scotia friend of mine, Laurie Swim.
From the internet....
" On Thursday, March 17, 1960, five immigrant Italian construction workers lost their lives underground while helping to build a new watermain in suburban north Toronto.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Laurie Swim, “one of Canada’s most esteemed artists”, City of Toronto and TTC officials, members of the Laborers International Union of North America (LiUNA)’s Local 183, the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)’s Local 113 and the Central Ontario Building Trades will unveil a permanent art installation in York Mills Station to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragedy.
Although the men did not die while helping to build the subway, York Mills Station is the perfect permanent home for piece. The subway station sits in Hogg’s Hollow, a few meters from the site of the accident, which trapped the men 35 feet underground in a cramped, dimly lit tunnel, beneath the west branch of the Don River. Their deaths sparked a public outcry over the lack of safety standards in construction. Ultimately, that led to better conditions for men and women working in hazardous construction sites.
Laurie Swim began her memorial quilt, “Breaking Ground: The Hogg’s Hollow Disaster 1960”, while she was living in Toronto in 1998.
The work immortalizes the five men who died that day: Pasqualle Allegrezza, Giovanni Battista Carriglio, Giovanni Fusillo and brothers Alessandro and Guido Mantella. Swim was fortunate enough to meet with some of the descendents of the five men and incorporated personal details from their stories into the scene. An open wallet near the centre of the work, for example, includes a representation of a photo of Giovanni Fusillo’s 8-month-old son — whom he had never met — which rescue workers found in his wallet when they recovered his body.
(Subways first started operating through York Mills Station almost exactly 13 years after the “Hogg’s Hollow Disaster”, on March 31, 1973.)
COSTI Immigrant Services (formerly Centro Organizzativo Scuole Tecniche Italiane) and financial contributions from businesses, corporations and hundreds of individuals supported Laurie and dozens of volunteers from the community, as they created the 7-by-20-foot (2-by-6-metre) mixed-media fibre memorial. The volunteers joined Laurie in sewing for about 4,000 hours during the nine months they required to complete the quilt.
The quilt serves not only as a memorial to working men and women who lost their lives lost while on the job, but also celebrates the spirit of community — the volunteers, City officials, organizations and corporations who worked together with a number of individual donors to create this commemorative portrait of an important moment in Toronto’s history."