Dam_on_Northwest_Branch_of_Anacostia_River,_taken_from_the_ridge_looking_north._-_Robert_B._Morse_Water_Filtration_Plant,_10700_and_10701_Columbia_Pike,_Silver_Spring,_Montgomery_County_HAER_MD-166-20.tif

Summary

Dam on Northwest Branch of Anacostia River, taken from the ridge looking north. - Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Photographer
Bieretz, Renee
Title
Dam on Northwest Branch of Anacostia River, taken from the ridge looking north. - Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Description
Morse, Robert B; Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission; Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission; Wherley, Charles O; Chicago Bridge and Iron Works Company; Prince George's and Montgomery Counties Sewerage Commission; Bureau of Sanitary Engineering; Maryland State Department of Health; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Gibb, John; Aldrich, Elwood H; Kirkwood, James P; Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, sponsor; Mueller, Julie, sponsor; Lampl, Elizabeth Jo, sponsor; Watts, Alden, researcher; Marston, Christopher, project manager
Depicted place Maryland; Montgomery County; Silver Spring
Date Documentation compiled after 1968; 2008
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER MD-166-20
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Notes
  • Significance: Constructed by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and opened in 1936, the Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant is significant for its unique filter assembly designed by Chief Engineer Robert B. Morse. Rather than locating the steps of the filtration process (sedimentation, flocculation, filtration and storage) in separate structures, Morse designed a filter assembly that incorporated nearly all the steps into one circular structure. Although the filter assemblies were removed after the plant was taken offline in 1962, elements of the filtration process remain. The site is also significant in the history of the development of municipal water systems, both in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region and in the United States.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1137
  • Survey number: HAER MD-166
  • Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after 1962 Demolished
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1796.photos.574342p
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Object location 38° 59′ 26.02″ N, 77° 01′ 35″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap info

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