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Tag: Water Works

Scene in Walnut Hills from the Playhouse in the Park

Continuing our clear air photos in Walnut Hills during the Covid 19 shutdown, the cloudy-day image was taken from the grounds of the Playhouse in Continue Reading

Deconstructing Construction during Reconstruction: Financing the Reservoir Project

The Eden Park Reservoir project came during the decade or so after the Civil War, a period generally known as Reconstruction. The construction we have Continue Reading

Construction During Reconstruction: Eden Park Circumferential Route

The major features of Eden Park emerged, at least in planning form, even before the completion of the reservoir. Apart from heroic efforts at landscaping Continue Reading

Construction After Reconstruction: Eden Park Filtration Testing

The Water Works in Eden Park served as the testing site for one of the most important innovations in water treatment during the progressive era.  Continue Reading

Construction during Reconstruction: Eden Park Reservoir Elsinore Gate

The saga of the connection of the reservoir in Eden Park to the downtown water mains and the Hunt Street Pumping station dragged out from Continue Reading

Construction during Reconstruction: Mt. Auburn Reservoir

In 1867, Cincinnati began construction of the new reservoir in Eden Park, Walnut Hills, to provide a generous, high-pressure supply of water to the residents Continue Reading

Construction during Reconstruction: Eden Park Reservoir Effluent Pipe

Walnut Hills, behind Mt Adams as seen from downtown Cincinnati, faces the Ohio River on one side and the Deer Creek ravine down to the Continue Reading

Construction during Reconstruction: Front Street Pumping Station

Lifting water requires a lot of work. An elevated reservoir stores both water and the work required to lift the water. The siting of the Continue Reading

Avoiding Construction During Reconstruction: Public Health, Sewage and Contaminated Water

Proponents offered clean water as one of the early promises of the Reservoir at Eden Park. The huge artificial lake held a hundred million gallons Continue Reading

Construction during Reconstruction: Eden Park Reservoir Influent Pipe

The Eden Park Reservoir Project began in 1866 with the construction of huge retaining walls to support the reservoir. A second front was opened in Continue Reading

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