From the NYC DEP:Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway today announced the demolition of two elevated water storage tanks in Queens. The tanks – located at 93-02 199 Street, in Hollis, and 84-02 164 Street, in Jamaica Estates – are no longer part of the water distribution network, and local elected officials and community organizations have requested their removal. Site mobilization for the demolition process started March 1. The 199 Street tank will be demolished next weekend and the tank at 164 Street will be demolished the second week of April. The cost for both demolitions is $545,000.
The two 250,000 gallon capacity tanks were built in 1930 by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company on behalf of the former Jamaica Water Supply Company. The tanks were originally used to store water and maintain pressure in the distribution system. DEP assumed control of the tanks upon the purchase the Queens portion of the company in 1996. Since then, DEP has replaced and upgraded water mains in Southeast Queens to improve distribution and water quality. For example, a network of 20-inch mains was installed in the last 10 years in the surrounding community and large numbers of outdated fire hydrants were replaced with standard ones to enhance the fire fighting ability of the system. Several other projects are currently under construction, including over three miles of a 48-inch water main in Jamaica and Hollis. Due to investments like these over the years, the tanks have been obsolete for more than a decade.
7 comments:
Watch out for lead paint spreading if the contractor does not use certain measure to limit it's spreading during the work.
Just passed that one on 164th Street last week.
Maybe they should keep it as a sewage water retention tank.
It's better to have shit in the sky instead of it winding up untreated directly into our waterways during a storm surge.
Oops...Jamaica Estates' resident Padavan won't like that suggestion very much.
Why did it take so long for these towers to come down if they've been obsolete for so long?
Guess I'll have to go by after they are gone, take a couple of photos, and submit them to the USGS as destroyed horizontal control points - yes, they aare both in the offical database of structures that can be used as surveyors as reference points
I always pass the one on 164th Street and am constantly amazed at how the graffiti writers get way up there. No one sees them do their thing?
Superman's changing rooms left our streetscape long ago, and now the Animaniacs are losing their iconic home. What is happening to our pop cultural cityscape?
I think it would be good to use these tanks to store fresh water for emergency, in case some disaster disrupts our water supply.
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