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Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.

This morning.
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I haven't really got anything spectacular to add to the thread, but here's a few shots of the Water Plant I'm currently assigned to. Construction began in the late 1930's, but due to delays (WW II) she didn't go on line until 1946.
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I love the old architecture... this place, for those of you not old enough to remember "duck and cover" was a nuclear fallout shelter too. It would be insanely expensive to build another structure like this, which is why most modern plants are prefab concrete instead of wood and marble.

The front facade, relatively unchanged for 75 years:

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Check out the scrolls at the front door:

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Just inside those doors, the main foyer:

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The old 1944 Filter House, still in service:

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Some of the stonework in the Filter House:

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And some of the wood trim around the doors:

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Down in the belly of the beast, we call this the Pipe Gallery. It's underneath the Filter House. Like a Super Mario Bros. game.

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Original cast iron spiral staircase that leads down to the Pipe Gallery. It's been moved twice since original construction... each time they added onto the building, first in 1954, and again in 1994, somebody thought enough of it to keep it.

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Sometimes I think about the dozens of Operators here before me that must have trudged up and down these steps 4 times daily on walkthrough inspections.
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If there ever was a case of “They don’t make ‘em like That anymore.”...
 
...a Great post! Thanks!

If there ever was a case of “They don’t make ‘em like That anymore.”...

Sure don't... here's a picture of the last Plant where I was assigned to from 2011-17... a state-of-the-art 'membrane' filtration facilty right in the downtown district that only went online in late-2002.

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It was a nice automated plant, and an incredible machine... I ran close to 5 million gallons of water per day through there at a cost of roughly .03 per/1000 gal. But like I said, all prefabricated concrete and steel, totally Spartan, no thought given whatsoever to aesthetics, beyond making it as invisible as possible in plain sight.

I was only the 3rd Operator to run that joint, and it hurt getting reassigned after taking care of her like she belonged to me... but hey - it's a livin'. ;)

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