Aspinwall Water Treatment Plant

February 4, 1960

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Aspinwall Water Treatment Plant
  • Title
  • Aspinwall Water Treatment Plant
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • February 4, 1960
  • Identifier
  • 715.60108151.CP
  • Description
  • A view of the water treatment facilities for the Aspinwall water treatment plant with the Brilliant Pumping Station located directly behind it. The plant was initially built in 1879 by William Kerr and his sons. In 1914, the Brilliant Pumping Station took the place of the Montrose Pumping Station as the primary supplier of water for the city of Pittsburgh. The treatment plant was built in 1907. Prior to the construction of the water treatment plant, Pittsburgh had the highest rate of typhoid fever cases in the nation. In 1923, the treatment plant had the distinction of being the largest sand filtration plant in the world.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Water-supply engineering
    Brilliant Pumping Station (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Montrose Pumping Station (Blawnox, Pa.)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2000
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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