Wards Island Wastewater Treatment Plant
102 LaGuardia Circle | Randall's Island
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- 1937
Mayor La Guardia dedicates the Wards Island sewage treatment plant
A treatment plant for Wards Island was proposed in 1914, the state released 52 acres for it in 1927, and construction began in June 1931. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia dedicated the plant, of which this administration building is part, on October 23, 1937. It opened with a capacity of 180 million gallons a day, raised to 275 million gallons a day in 2003.
Source: nyc.gov
- 1937
The plant becomes the first to use the conventional activated sludge process
When it came on line in October 1937, the Wards Island plant was the first to use the conventional activated sludge process. It was built to treat sewage from Manhattan's east side and the lower Bronx, with a Public Works Administration grant of $11,360,250.
Source: livingnewdeal.org
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