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The gatehouse was constructed at the Georgetown Reservoir to pump water into the four-mile long Washington City Tunnel that led to McMillan Reservoir, completed in 1902. [2] [3] A filtration system was constructed at McMillan in 1905 and this system improved the quality of city water. [3] [4] [5] Construction of the gatehouse began in 1899.
At the outlet of the Georgetown facility is a sluice gate building that controls the flow of water into Washington City Tunnel, which leads to the McMillan Reservoir. This structure, called the Georgetown Castle Gatehouse , was built by the Army (c. 1901) in the shape of a castle.
The Washington Aqueduct Dam, upstream of the Potomac River's Great Falls. The centerpiece of the Aqueduct is a 12-mile (19 km) pipeline that connects the system's dam at Great Falls with the Dalecarlia Reservoir on the border with Montgomery County, Maryland. Portions of the Aqueduct went online on January 3, 1859, and the full pipeline began ...
In 1924, Owens Valley residents seized the L.A. Aqueduct in a defiant protest. An event focuses on remembering the troubled chapter of L.A. water history.
Castle Gatehouse, a pumping station for the Washington Aqueduct in Washington, D.C., built 1899–1901. [20] It is listed as a contributing building on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Castle Gwynn, Triune, Tennessee, built 1980–present for Mike Freeman. The current plan calls for four towers with a keep, but so far only the ...
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The 50-acre (200,000 m 2) reservoir was completed in 1858 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as part of the Washington Aqueduct project. [3] It began providing water on January 3, 1859. [4] Initially the reservoir provided water to the city from the adjacent Little Falls Branch until the aqueduct construction was completed ...