During that museum night in Warsaw i decided to see Warsaw’s filtration plant. I heard that that place was really worth to see… i hoped so because i was waiting in the queue more then 2 hours… from 22pm to quarter past midnight. After half to one am I’ve passed the gate and entered the filtration plant grounds. When i looked back, i saw short queue, because just a few where going to be let in that night – entrance was going to be open till 1am. After entering the filtration plant grounds, guided with the local guide we started to sightsee that historical plant….
W saw fast water filters, pump halls, historical documents and projects made by William Lindley himself, and the most astonishing – the slow filters in the cellars of the filtration plant. At the end we could dring a cup of water from the last section of filtration, just before distribution it to the warsaw’s water supply system… it was really worth to wait those 2 hours to see all that.
Warsaw’s waterworks was designed and built by british engineer William Lindley. Construction was ordered by Sokrates Starynkiewicz, russian general – the president of Warsaw during first year of his governance during partition of Poland [wiki].
In the year 1881 Starynkiewicz approved project and till the year of 1886 was built first waterworks and sewage system in Warsaw. Project was finished by the son of the engineer William Heerlein Lindley. First water to Warsaw’s citizens flowed 3rd of July 1886 from the filters with one group of slow filters, one tank of clean water, one pump hall and one water tower.
Here you can see photo of the filters from the satelitte:
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Some shots of the Warsaw’s filtration plant, taken during that sightseeing. Please take a look, it’s really worth to see… There is also a whole gallery prepared from that trip.
Slow filters of the Warsaw’s filtration plant
View at the filtration plant buildings
Filtration plant is in the center of Warsaw, you can see Warsaw’s skyscrapers in the 2nd plan
Pump hall of the Warsaw’s filtration plant
Fast filters – first phase of filtration
Slow filters in the cellars of the filtration plant
Original and historical entrance to the slow filters
Please take a look at the bigger gallery from the Museum Night 2009 and my visit to the Warsaw’s filtering plant.
