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The Reservoirs of Covington Water Works, Located in the Kentucky Highlands, left, 1903; right, c. 1910 |
Newport Reservoir, c. 1910 | ||
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| Locations | The Thalweg |
The Fort Thomas side of the Ohio had intakes for three water systems, and reservoirs for two.
Why? Because that's where the thalweg is. An attempt to clarify.
Purple arrows are Covington; green, Newport; red, Cincinnati.
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| The Covington Waterworks, 1914 (Sorry for the quality of the pic - best available) |
The Covington Reservoir, Fort Thomas |
The Covington Reservoir Fort Thomas |
The Reservoir in Military Park |
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The original Fort Thomas water reservoir. |
Covington Reservoir | At the pump house, |
Covington Water Works |
A View of the Cincinnati pumping station
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City Water Works in the Day
and Night, |
Cincinnati Waterworks, California, Ohio, looking across the river to Fort Thomas |
And a close up - check out the railroad tracks, 1907 |
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| Railroad side | Pier Construction |
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| 1904 | Note steam engine on KY side | Note the men on top. From a Facebook post by Bob Kent |
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| Cincinnati Waterworks pumping station, on the Fort Thomas side, under construction, c. 1890. |
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| The City of Cincinnati actually owns the Kentucky real estate that their pumping station is built upon. | ||
Scene along along Alexandria Pike.
It should say Covington; not Newport.
