Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Grand Mound installed its first water system in 1898 and built a frame building to house it. Oral tradition in the town relates that the original pump was destroyed by an explosion caused by a spark set off by the fuel. [2] The present building was built on the location of the original pump house in 1915.
The pump house was also fitted with gates so that each pump could power either the high or low systems, if needed. By 1876, more than 45 miles of water pipe, ranging from 6 to 24 inches in diameter had been installed throughout the city. [5]
The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. ... Fall River Pump House and Catchment Basin; G.
Thanks to hundreds of donations and grant money the Pump House has officially reached its goal and then some, raising a total of $291,452. Pump House Center for the Arts reaches fundraising goal ...
The pump house was brought back into village control in 2023. More: 'Exciting changes' are planned for this former KDB building in Peoria Heights. This article originally appeared on Journal Star: ...
A four pole or six pole AC induction motor normally drives the pump. Rather than provide large open passages, some pumps, typically smaller sewage pumps, also macerate any solids within the sewage breaking them down into smaller parts which can more easily pass through the impeller. The interior of a sewage pump station is a very dangerous place.
Road side of pump house. The Saugatuck Pump House is a single story red brick structure with a hipped roof on a concrete and block foundation. The building was constructed in two parts, and measures 58 feet in length along the river sides by 27 feet wide (in the 1912 north section) or 22 feet wide (in the 1904 south section).
The Fairmount Water Works was initially constructed between 1812 and 1815 on the east bank of the Schuylkill River.The Water Works initially consisted of a 3 million US gallons (11,000,000 L) earthen reservoir atop Faire Mount at the present site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a pump house with two steam engines to pump water.