Omohundro Water Treatment Plant
Omohundro Water Treatment Plant is a municipal water treatment plant located in Davidson County, Nashville, Tennessee on Omohundro Drive.
Omohundro Water Treatment Plant | |
| Location | NE Omohundro Drive, Nashville, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 36°9′43″N 86°43′23″W |
| Built | 1888 |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 87000380[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 13, 1987 |
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]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- Omohundro Waterworks System. United States Department of the Interior; National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form. May 1987.
- 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.
- 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.