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Newtown Creek Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility
Newtown Creek Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility

Board of Water Supply. Williamsburg Conduit. Beaver Engineering and Contracting Company, contractor. Contractor's pipe storage yard at the foot of Huron Street on Wales Creek (Whale Creek). In the foreground is an electrically operated traveling crane for loading the steel pipes on trucks for installation in the steel pipeline. In the background is an Erie lighter delivering the pipes to the storage yard. (This site is now occupied by the Newtown Creek Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility.) June 22, 1925.

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