Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge Pumping Station, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Summary
Significance: Built in 1934-35, this building is directly associated with the conversion of Providence's Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant from the chemical precipitation process to the activated sludge process. It contained the pumps which returned a portion of biologically active sludge back into the treatment process, and as such was integral to the modernized operations of the plant.
Survey number: HAER RI-20-I
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 88003105
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Riverside, 41.79486, -71.39791
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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