Indian Creek Waste Treatment Plant
Photo: NICK SWARTSELL Source: https://www.citybeat.com/news/news-feature/article/20983655/the-new-deal-left-local-landmarks-and-a-complicated-increasingly-relevant-legacy
Description
Several New Deal programs involved the development of sewer and water systems across the United States. The Cincinnati Indian Creek Water Waste Treatment Plant is one such example of New Deal-funded infrastructure upgrade. It was completed by the Works Progress Administration. The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) reports that the WPA constructed the plant in 1935, and that it remains operational today.
Today the Cincinnati Indian Creek Water Waste Treatment Plant removes pollutants from industrial waste and processes more than 1 million gallons of water a day in the Cincinnati area.
Source notes
Nick Swartsel, The New Deal left local landmarks and a complicated increasingly relevant legacy, CityBeat, NOV 21, 2017.
Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD), accessed Jun 27, 2018.
Project originally submitted by Emmanuel Bagirov on June 26, 2018.
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