History UnderfootAtlanta
  • Waterworks
  • Water
  • 1893; still in use
  • City of Atlanta
  • Location approximate

Chattahoochee River pumping station (1893)

The city's river intake, built in 1893 on a bluff where Peachtree Creek meets the Chattahoochee, at the site of the Muscogee town of Standing Peachtree.

See it on the map All Water records

The record

WABE says the original station had four boilers and could pump 20 million gallons a day to the Hemphill reservoir; the city's water history mentions a 30-inch main and notes that one 1890s transmission line still runs seasonally. Today's station can move more than 200 million gallons a day to Hemphill and the Chattahoochee plant. State markers and a replica of the 1814 Fort Peachtree stand on the grounds off Ridgewood Road, which are closed to the public. The existing Standing Peachtree entry notes that the town's mound was destroyed in 1893 for this waterworks.

Today: City of Atlanta raw-water pumping station off Ridgewood Road NW (closed to the public).