Intake: (Satellite)
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| Photo, Oct 2017 |
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| CincinnatiTripleSteam "Weighing in at 1,400 tons these [four] 104 feet [31.7m] high triple expansion crank and flywheel water pumping steam engines are the largest ever built. At 1,000 HP they are not the most powerful as smaller engines with larger horsepower were used at Main Station in Cincinnati and elsewhere in the world." |
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| CincinnatiTripleSteam_river_station It had a designed capacity of 30m gallons per day, and it was tested at 30,878,124gpd. It was 1,000 horsepower and used 150psi with two reheaters. |
We can tell by the piston sizes at the top that the high, middle and low pressure cylinders are right to left in this animation. Each piston running its own pump makes sense because that allows three pumps to operate 120 degrees out of phase with each other. This would provide an almost smooth output of water.
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| 3:30 video @ 1:56 |
The pump house was built on the far eastern side of Cincinnati with the intake on the Kentucky side of the river because that was the lowest point in the river in the region. That helped keep the intake underwater when the river level got low. At times, one could walk across the river before the dams were built.
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| Jully Alison posted 1906 photo of the newly completed intake building which sits atop a hand-dug tunnel that sent gravity-fed water under the Ohio to CWW's River Station pump house in the background. It was then treated and supplied to the entire city via four of the largest coal-fired steam pump engines in the world each standing 104 feet tall. I had the privilege of checking them out today [Sep 6, 2025] and they are mighty.... [The tours are open to the public.] |
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