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Providence Sewage Treatment System, Ernest Street Pumping Station, Boiler House, Ernest Street & Allens Avenue, Providence, Providence County, RI

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Providence Sewage Treatment System, Ernest Street Pumping Station, Boiler House, Ernest Street & Allens Avenue, Providence, Providence County, RI

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Significance: As the power source for three steam engines which in turn powered sewage pumps, this structure was one of three integral elements in the Ernest Street sewage pumping station built in 1895-6 to convey sewage to Providence's Fields Point Plant for treatment.
Survey number: HAER RI-20-C
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 88003103

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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