SW District YP Plant Tour
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Category: YP Events
Join the SW District YPs for a comprehensive tour of the Greater Cincinnati Water Works.
Agenda:
- 3:00pm-4:30pm:
- The GCWW Water History Museum, which details the progression of providing the region with safe water for 200+ years.
- The facilities used to process, treat, and clean the water including sand filtration, Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), and Ultraviolet Disinfection (UV).
- The state-of-the-art lab facilities and testing processes that ensure the safety of the water.
- An explanation of how water from the Ohio River is treated to produce safe drinking water.
- An understanding of how water is delivered to the people who live in the region... from source to tap!
- (optional) 4:30pm-5:00pm: Old River Station
- The pump house and its history.
- The engine house, which is the boiler house that supplied steam to the engines, along with the coal storage area and riverside coal handling dock.
- The great pump chamber that moved a staggering 30,000,000 gallons of water every day for 57 years.
Register by March 19, 2025 below.
Contact: [email protected]
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