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Make It Interesting • Challenge No 2 (Water Intake)
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Early 1900 many councils in the region Kennemerland had a discussion about the construction of a water supply system. In 1896 the Amsterdam Dune Water Company was transferred to the city of Amsterdam. After Den Helder (Marine City) Haarlem in 1898 was the third town in North Holland who gained their own water supply. The water came from wells in the dunes near Overveen. Alkmaar and Zaandam also walked in the front row of cities with their own water supply. In 1906 only 117 out of the 1121 municipalities in the Netherlands(ten percent)had organized their own water supply. Velsen municipality took the initiative in 1910 to create a common water supply with several municipalities. It opened in February 1917. Water extraction from wells stopped permanently in 1937. the water had become brackish. Waterwin Company PWN, the owner of the 42,60 meters high tower in the mid-eighties no longer needed it for water supply. In autumn 2000 waterworks complex at Velsen was sold to the city of Velsen, who on its turn sold the buildings in the park in 2006 to a real estate company from Zealand (which itself holds office in a water tower). The new owner of this industrial monument has given the water tower on the Evertsenstraat a second life through the construction of eleven apartments.
The tower has been almost a century a landmark and beacon for the people of IJmuiden. High in the tower, the view is magnificent and typically IJmuiden: the imposing locks, the North Sea, the dunes and the sea are never far from this height.
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This water tower is situated in a group of Almhouses in Lapworth. I have been meaning to get a picture of it for a while.
Falls Creek Falls
Coon Creek Falls
Falls Creek Falls State Park
Middle Tennessee
Falls Creek Falls and Coon Creek Falls are a rare double falls dropping 256 ft. and 250 ft. respectively into the gorge below. Falls Creek Falls is claimed to be the tallest plunge waterfall east of the Mississippi.
This was an exciting experience for me as I was here in February of 2009 and the light was terrible and most of the photographs I got then were way blown out and was eager for a return. As luck would have it I was able to return much sooner than I thought and this time I was here right as the sun set over the horizon allowing for some extremely long exposures. I will say this a gorgeous falls and the view is equally as beautiful.
No editing. The city put som really nice lights on the watertower during the winter. Looks almost a bit creepy... do the water still taste the same =)
Former Medford Knitwear Mill clothing plant in Medford, NJ. The operation moved here from Brooklyn, NY in 1936 on the suggestion of Public Service Electric and Gas to help with unemployment in the area. The plant expanded through its years of operation, it was originally a hosiery mill. After it closed it sometime in the early 1980s the building was divided into smaller spaces.