Omohundro Water Treatment Plant is a municipal

water treatment Water treatment is any process that improves the Water quality, quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking water, drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recrea ...

plant located in Davidson County,

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on Omohundro Drive. Built in 1888, the pump station and boiler house were designed by C. K. Colley. Fitted with Holly-Gaskill pumps that transfer 10 million gallons of water per day from the

Cumberland River The Cumberland River is a major waterway of the Southern United States. The U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed June 8, 2011 river drains almost of southern Kentucky and ...

to the City Reservoir on Kirkpatrick's Hill at Eighth Avenue, South. The steam-powered generators were converted to electricity in 1952. The filtration plant was completed in 1929 after the intake station, stores and pumps. In 1987 it was added to the US National Register of Historic Places. The plant was threatened during the

2010 Tennessee floods The 2010 Tennessee floods were 1,000-year floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010. Flo ...

, a devastating flood in Nashville but major damage was avoided with a sandbagging effort.

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* National Register of Historic Places in Nashville, Tennessee Water treatment facilities Gothic Revival architecture in Tennessee {{DavidsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub