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Sewage Treatment Plant, Completed September 1950, Grouped in the background--left to right--Pumphouse, covered walk-way, office and laboratory, control room (directly in back of office), two sludge digestors, and the refuse disposal unit, with vacuum sludge filters. Directly in front of this building group, right to left, are the primary, secondary, and final sedimentation filters. The two circular structures in the foreground are trickling filters, and at the extreme left foreground is the million gallon final effluent reservoir. Paving of paths, roads, and walks, also landscaping and a mesh wire fence completely surrounding the plant have no yet been completed. Built at a cost of a million dollars, it is to serve as a model of construction for future plants in several of the metropolitan areas of the West

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Title: Sewage Treatment Plant, Completed September 1950, Grouped in the background--left to right--Pumphouse, covered walk-way, office and laboratory, control room (directly in back of office), two sludge digestors, and the refuse disposal unit, with vacuum sludge filters. Directly in front of this building group, right to left, are the primary, secondary, and final sedimentation filters. The two circular structures in the foreground are trickling filters, and at the extreme left foreground is the million gallon final effluent reservoir. Paving of paths, roads, and walks, also landscaping and a mesh wire fence completely surrounding the plant have no yet been completed. Built at a cost of a million dollars, it is to serve as a model of construction for future plants in several of the metropolitan areas of the West
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
Publication Information: University of California, Davis, Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Contributing Institution: UC Davis, University Library, University Archives
Collection: University Archives Photographs
Rights Information: Permissions for use must be submitted in writing to: The Head of the Dept. of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis 95616-5292
University of California Regents
Department of Special Collections, Shields Library, University of California, 100 N.W. Quad, Davis, CA, 95616-5292 (530) 752-1621; Fax (530) 754-5758 speccoll@ucdavis.edu
From the University Archives Photographs, Dept. of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis. The collection is the property of the Regents of the University of California; no part may be reproduced or used without permission of the Dept. of Special Collections. Permissions for use must be submitted in writing to: The Head of the Dept. of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, 1st Floor, Shields Library, University of California, Davis, 100 N.W. Quad, Davis, CA 95616-5292. (530) 752-1621; Fax (530) 754 -5758
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/c89c6zhp
UAP_01020

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