Omohundro Water Treatment Plant

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Omohundro Water Treatment Plant
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LocationNE Omohundro Drive, Nashville, Tennessee
Coordinates 36°9′43″N86°43′23″W / 36.16194°N 86.72306°W / 36.16194; -86.72306 Coordinates: 36°9′43″N86°43′23″W / 36.16194°N 86.72306°W / 36.16194; -86.72306
Built1888 (1888)
Architectural styleGothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 87000380 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 13, 1987

Omohundro Water Treatment Plant is a municipal water treatment plant located in Davidson County, Nashville, Tennessee on Omohundro Drive.

Built in 1888, the pump station and boiler house were designed by C. K. Colley. Fitted with Holly-Gaskill pumps that transfer 10 million gallons of water per day from the Cumberland River to the City Reservoir on Kirkpatrick's Hill at Eighth Avenue, South. [2]

The steam-powered generators were converted to electricity in 1952. The filtration plant was completed in 1929 after the intake station, stores and pumps. [3] In 1987 it was added to the US National Register of Historic Places. [1]

The plant was threatened during the 2010 Tennessee floods, a devastating flood in Nashville but major damage was avoided with a sandbagging effort. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Omohundro Waterworks System. United States Department of the Interior; National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form. May 1987.
  3. Doss, Glen K. (Fall 2018). Omohundro WTP 89 Years of Filtration and Counting (PDF). Kentucky/Tennessee Section American Water Works Association. pp. 30–31. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  4. Testimony Concerning Lessons from the 2010 Tennessee Flood: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations. U.S. Government Printing Office. 2011. pp. 15–16. ISBN   9780160883651.