Looking east at the restored concrete sand bins and regulator houses at the southern portion of the site.
This file appears in: McMillan Park Reservoir Historic District: The city’s first water treatment plant was both a victory for public health and a monument to the City Beautiful movement.
This file appears in: McMillan Park Reservoir Historic District: The city’s first water treatment plant was both a victory for public health and a monument to the City Beautiful movement.
McMillan Park Reservoir Historic District: The city’s first water treatment plant was both a victory for public health and a monument to the City Beautiful movement.
Constructed over a period of decades at the turn of the 20th century, the McMillan Park Reservoir’s original slow sand filtration system was DC’s first water purification facility. Connected to the…