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    to processing sites. A pumping station is an integral part of a pumped-storage hydroelectricity installation. Pumping stations are designed to move water...
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    The Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the Metropolitan Board of Works's chief engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and...
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    Abbey Mills Pumping Station is a sewage pumping station in Mill Meads, East London, operated by Thames Water. The pumping station lifts sewage from the...
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    Crofton Pumping Station, near the village of Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England, supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water. The...
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    Mansergh and used to pump sewage to the sewage farm at Egginton. The main pumping plant consists of four Woolf compound, rotative, beam pumping engines. These...
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  • Greenwich Pumping Station, known until c. 1986 as Deptford Pumping Station, is a sewage pumping station in the London Borough of Greenwich built in 1865...
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    The Chicago Avenue Pumping Station is a historic district contributing property in the Old Chicago Water Tower District landmark district. It is located...
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    Springhead Pumping Station was a pumping station in Hull in England. It later became a waterworks museum. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Springhead...
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    Papplewick Pumping Station, situated in open agricultural land approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) by road from the Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick,...
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    Claverton Pumping Station in the village of Claverton, in the English county of Somerset, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal...
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    The Abbey Pumping Station is a museum of science and technology in Leicester, England, on Corporation Road, next to the National Space Centre. With four...
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    7044; -2.7479 Coleham Pumping Station is a historical pumping station at Coleham in Shrewsbury, England. The sewage pumping station was built at the end...
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  • station has served as the archetype for similar pumping stations worldwide. Water began to be pumped from the Chicago River as early as 1803. By the late...
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    tower. Ironically, the pumping station stopped working during the fire. The roof, not made of limestone, caught fire and the pumps stopped working, stopped...
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    The Falmouth Pumping Station is a historic water pumping station on Pumping Station Road in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The complex consists of an 1898 Queen...
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    It has a pumping capacity of 4,000 m3/min (1,100,000 U.S. gal/min). The pumping station is currently used to supplement the existing pumping capacity...
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    Goulburn Pumping Station is a heritage-listed former municipal water supply system and now museum at Wollondilly River, Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree Council...
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    aid the drainage, pumping stations were placed to lift the sewage from lower levels into higher pipes. Two of the more ornate stations, Abbey Mills in Stratford...
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    power generation to support the pumping stations. Communities oriented to the maintenance of the pipeline and pumping stations grew up along the route. With...
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    Boughton Pumping Station was a water pumping station near New Ollerton in Nottinghamshire, operating from 1905. After closure it became a commercial hospitality...
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    Bestwood Pumping Station was a water pumping station operating in Nottinghamshire from 1874 until 1964. Bestwood Pumping Station was built between 1871...
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    Road: Ryde Pumping Station West Ryde is home to a commercial area close to West Ryde railway station and the Sydney Water Station, which pumps water to...
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    North Pine Pumping Station is a heritage-listed pumping station at Lake Kurwongbah-Dayboro Road, Whiteside, City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia...
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    942361°N 118.8246639°W / 34.942361; -118.8246639 Edmonston Pumping Plant is a pumping station near the south end of the California Aqueduct, which is the...
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    and thoroughfares of London to the river. The plan included major pumping stations at Deptford (1864) and at Crossness (1865) on the Erith marshes, both...
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    Burdekin River Pumping Station is a heritage-listed pumping station at Weir Road, Breddan, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built...
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  • were unique to the water industry: pumping stations, water towers, and dams. In particular, the pumping stations that housed large steam engines in the...
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    former railway water supply pumping station was built in 1913 on a waterhole on Lagoon Creek at Caboolture. It was the third pump site drawing water from...
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    Beam engine (redirect from Beam pump)
    machines. Coultershaw Beam Pump (West Sussex, England) – preserved water-powered beam engine from 1782. Crofton Pumping Station (Great Bedwyn, England) –...
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    a Scheduled Ancient Monument, housed a combined sewage pumping and waste destructor station built in 1894. The museum helps people to explore, enjoy...
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