Mechanical Filtration Plant at Atlanta The original mechanical filtration plant for the water supply of Atlanta, Ga., was located at the old South river pumping station and was supplied from a small stream which took its rise south of the city and not far from it. This plant consists of 12 Hyatt, open, gravity, steel-tank, vertical-filters, and was installed in 1887. The capacity of this plant was guaranteed to be 3,000,ooo United States gal. in twenty-four hours, or at that rate. In 1892 the supply was changed to the Chattahoochee river, 7 miles from the city, where a pumping station, known as No. t river station, was located, its function being to lift the raw water from the river to the settling reservoir against a head of 477 ft. in the same year a battery of New York, sectional, wash filters’was furnished and located at pumping station No. 2, knowm…
