Water Treatment Plant – Little Rock AR

City:
Little Rock, AR

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Description

“This project consisted of the construction of an impounding reservoir on the Saline River, 40 miles from Little Rock, a 40-mile transmission line, and the filter plant illustrated on this page. The plant, constructed at an approximate cost of $225,000, has a capacity of 15,000,000 gallons per day. The filter building is a fireproof structure faced with brick laid in a diamond pattern and trimmed with stone.

The entire project was completed in February 1938 at a construction cost of $3,120,760 and a project cost of $3,477,788.”

Source notes

C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939).

https://www.carkw.com/source/plants.asp

Location Info


Little Rock, AR 72205

Location notes: Most likely The Ozark Point Treatment Plant, located in the Heights-Hillcrest development district of Little Rock.

Coordinates: 34.756612, -92.30589

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