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Akron City Water Works Dam Completed
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| Title | Akron City Water Works Dam Completed |
| Description | This image shows the newly completed Akron Water Works Dam in Kent, Ohio. In 1910, Akron Mayor William T. Sawyer and the city council wanted to create a completely new water system. An engineering team's survey report recommended that Akron buy land and build a reservoir on the upper Cuyahoga River at a site just north of Kent. This would serve as the city's main water source with large pipelines running from the reservoir to Akron.
A continuing deterioration in the quality of water supplied by the Akron Water Works Company spurred Akron officials to pursue this plan. After successfully lobbying the state legislature for permission to build the reservoir, city council brought another bond issue up for public approval. In December of 1911, Akron voters passed the issue authorizing $815,000 and over the next four years approved issues total ling over $2,000,000. These monies were used for the purchase of land and water rights as well as construction costs for the dam, purification and pumping facilities and pipe lines. The system became operable in August 1915 with additional feeder mains being added in the late teen's and the twenties. |
| Names | Sawyer, William
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| Subject | Akron
dam
water
Water Works Company
Kent
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| Contributors | Summit County Historical Society
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| Type | Image
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| Format | 5 x 3 inches |
| Source | SCHS-AH-868 |
| Relation | Building Summit County
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| Rights | The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. This material from the picture file is protected by the copyright law. The library makes this picture available for the personal use of the borrower to be used for private study, scholarship or research. Reproduction, alteration or derivative use of this visual image for the purposes other than those listed above without the express written permission of the copyright holder may constitute an infringement of copyright law. |
| Accession # | 2008-70-868 |
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