Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant

United States historic place


Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


41°47′40″N 71°23′18″W / 41.79444°N 71.38833°W / 41.79444; -71.38833
Built	1934
Architect	Office of City Engineer, Providence
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Other
MPS	Public Works and Utilities--Sewage Treatment Facilities in Providence, 1895--1935 TR
NRHP reference No.	88003105^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 13, 1989

The Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant is an historic wastewater pumping station in the Field's Point Sewage Treatment Facility on Ernest Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a rectangular hip-roofed brick and concrete structure, located adjacent to the facility's aeration tanks, and is not readily visible from any public way. The building houses a number of large pumps in a large concrete substructure that is below grade. The facility was built in 1934–35, when the sewage treatment method was changed from a chemical process to a biological one, and is used to return biologically active sludge from the aeration tanks back into the treatment process. The pumps in the building are no longer original, having been replaced several times.^[2] The building is one of three to survive in the Field's Point area from the early decades of Providence's wastewater treatment system. the others are the Ernest Street Sewage Pumping Station and the Chemical Building; the Sludge Press House was demolished sometime in the last 30 years.

The pumping station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "NRHP nomination for Return Sludge Pumping Station" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-27.

External links

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. RI-20, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Providence, Providence County, RI"
HAER No. RI-20-A, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Ernest Street Pumping Station, Engine House, Ernest Street & Allens Avenue"
HAER No. RI-20-B, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Ernest Street Pumping Station, Filth Hoist House, Ernest Street & Allens Avenue"
HAER No. RI-20-C, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Ernest Street Pumping Station, Boiler House, Ernest Street & Allens Avenue"
HAER No. RI-20-D, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Washington Park Pumping Station, Shipyard Street"
HAER No. RI-20-E, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Reservoir Avenue Pumping Station, Reservoir & Pontiac Avenues"
HAER No. RI-20-F, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Laboratory, Ernest Street"
HAER No. RI-20-G, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Chemical House, Ernest Street"
HAER No. RI-20-H, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press House, Ernest Street"
HAER No. RI-20-I, "Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge Pumping Station"