Landmark Status Recognizes Civil Engineers’ Contribution to Society

The leadership of the Cincinnati Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) proudly announce it has nominated the designation of “ASCE National Civil Engineering Historic Landmark” to the Old River Station facility, located at the Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) Richard Miller Treatment Plant.

The Old River Station steam pump plant contains four of the largest triple-expansion, crank-and-flywheel water pumping steam engines in the world. The engines are housed in the GCWW station on the north bank of the Ohio River, on the eastern end of Cincinnati.

Once the Historic Landmark status is granted by ASCE National, a bronze marker at the plant will acknowledge the Station and modern water filtration processes refined in Cincinnati. The great strides made by civil engineers locally enabled a 90 percent reduction of typhoid fever in the region by 1908.

About Old River Station
More information on the station can be found at http://cincinnatitriplesteam.org/ and https://www.cincinnatioh.
gov/water/about/gcww-history/. Tours of the site occur the first Saturday of each month. For reservations go to
https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/water/about/tours/.

Other ASCE National Historic Landmarks in the state include:

• Ingalls Building - the first steel-reinforced concrete skyscraper (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio, Covington, Kentucky)
• Ohio Canal System
• First Concrete Pavement (Bellefontaine, Ohio)
• Goodyear Air Dock (Akron, Ohio).

About the American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 150,000 members of the civil engineering profession in 177 countries. Founded in 1852, ASCE is the nation’s oldest engineering society. ASCE stands at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operates society’s economic and social engine – the built environment – while protecting and restoring the natural environment.

For more information on The American Society of Civil Engineers, please visit: www.asce.org

Photo is of the Old River Station facility