Looking northeast, from the public park, at the restored concrete sand bins and regulator houses at the southern portion of the site.

ID: 5872 ~ Creator: Zachary Burt. ~ Date: June 2024.
This file appears in: McMillan Park Reservoir Historic District
Looking northeast, from the public park, 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

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 Washington Aqueduct, the reservoir treated the…