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The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum: Boston's Story of Water Works Villains, Heroes, and Machinery
Author(s) -
Kempe Marcis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.5942/jawwa.2015.107.0090
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , water industry , engineering , history , civil engineering , environmental engineering , archaeology , water supply
The story of Boston Water Works is a tale of water industry heroes who helped build the facilities and establish treatment processes to triumph over the waterborne diseases that plagued the city in the 1800s. Today, the machinery that was used from 1887 to 1974 is housed in the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, where visitors can view some of the most distinctive and well‐preserved steam pumping engines in the country.