New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company
New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company | |
Location | New Milford Avenue, Oradell, New Jersey |
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Coordinates | 40°56′49″N 74°1′30″W / 40.94694°N 74.02500°W |
Area | 13.3 acres (5.4 ha) |
Built | 1882 |
Architect | Brush, Charles Benjamin; Tierney, Myles |
Architectural style | Late Victorian, Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 01000891[1] |
NJRHP No. | 1922[2] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | August 22, 2001 |
Designated NJRHP | June 21, 2001 |
The New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company was a water treatment and pumping plant located on Van Buskirk Island, an artificially created island in the Hackensack River, in Oradell, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.[3] The site was purchased in 1881 by the Hackensack Water Company, which developed it for water supply use. The facility was built between 1881 and 1911, and it includes a brick pumping station from 1882, a tall filtration tower, and huge underground infrastructure.[4] The Hackensack Water Company was merged into United Water in the 1980s; the successor today is Suez North America.
Van Buskirk Island
Van Buskirk Island is a man-made island formed in 1802, and was created by the dams for the mills, The Southern End was known as the old Dock, Upper Landing or Old Landing and was the official
Preservation
In 1990,
See also
- Hackensack Water Company Complex
- Oradell Reservoir
- List of crossings of the Hackensack River
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Bergen County, New Jersey
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Bergen County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. April 1, 2010. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 30, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
- OCLC 13847.
- ^ http://cues.rutgers.edu/hackensack-water-works/pdfs/1_History_of_the_Hackensack_Water_Works.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Hackensack Waterworks property in Oradell to be redeveloped". The Record. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
- ^ Burrow, Megan (August 23, 2011), "State funds are aimed at opening doors at Hackensack Water Works", Town News, retrieved 2011-09-21
Further reading
- Zink, Clifford W. (2004). The Hackensack Water Works. Oradell, NJ: The Water Works Conservancy, Inc. ISBN 978-0974643304.
External links
- The Water Works Conservancy, Inc.
- Preservation NJ
- The Hackensack Water Works: Sparkling History, Cloudy Future
- Hackensack Water Works at Oradell
- View of New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company via Google Street View
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NJ-145, "Hackensack Water Company - New Milford Plant"
- Picture of New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company
- Hackensack Riverkeeper