The Anonymous Widower

Bazalgette Honoured with Olympic Sewage Pumping Station

The Olympic Park will create a lot of sewage and to pump it into Joseph Bazalgette‘s Northern Outfall Sewer, an elegant pumping station has been designed, which depicts Bazalgette’s Abbey Mills Pumping Station.

The new pumping station is described in the Architect’s Journal.  There are also some good pictures here.

I think he would have approved of the new pumping station, as he was a man to always use the best of the technology available at the time and he merged suprb engineering with very good art.  The new station appears to follow these rules.

April 1, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Sport | Art, Engineering, Joseph Bazalgette, Olympics