Old pumping station

The Altes Pumpwerk or Old pumping station is located in Bremen in Germany. The disused sewage pumping station is now used as a museum showing the history of water treatment.

Altes Pumpwerk
The museum in 2013
Established1913 (1913)
LocationBremen
Websitewww.hansewasser.de

History

Historically the people of Bremen would tip their waste from their toilet windows into the river and this caused disease.[1]

The building was in use from 1913 to 1994 pumping sewage into the River Weser.[2] Initially the effluent was pumped into the river after very little treatment but later the waste products were cleaned first at a sewage treatment plant at Seahausen. A new pumping station was started in 1994 and this station was surplus to requirements. The museum was started by a group of volunteers including former employees in 1997. The museum won an award in 2010.

Description

The museum has many displays. It also has an entrance to the underground systems for water treatment.

gollark: If we run an ACME server it'll be compatible with all the existing tooling too.
gollark: Interesting idea. I think we could do this.
gollark: The main issue I have with things is just that the PKI stuff is kind of awful, but we can change "major browser support" to "certificate issued by authorities trusted by major browsers, or secure alternative certificate issuance systems".
gollark: Things acting as servers, with internet connectivity and the ability to do IP and whatever, are surely basically fast enough™ to do cryptography.
gollark: And in most cases it won't, because computers are fast and can easily deal with running a few block ciphers over things.

References
  1. The exhibition, Altes pumpwerk, retrieved 23 March 2014
  2. Themenmuseen in Bremen, Bremen Tourist Office, retrieved 23 March 2014
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.