From Water Works Park the raw water flows through a 14-foot tunnel for 10,000 feet, then forks to the Northeast Water Treatment Plant at 8 Mile Road & Conner, and to the Springwells Water Treatment Plant at Warren Road & Lonyo. Jefferson at Water Works Park is the first stop along the route, which is connected to the Belle Isle Intake by a 15.5-foot-diameter brick and concrete tunnel lying under the Detroit River. Raw water enters the system through this intake building and is pumped to the city's west side and east side treatment plants.
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In any case, you may recognize it as the hideout in the blaxploitation movie Detroit 9000. Local architectural guru and personal friend Benjamin Gravel suggested that the Art-Deco exterior façade of the plant may have been designed by local architects Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. The building is also listed however in the HAER's Lower Peninsula of Michigan Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, which disagrees, saying it was built in 1929 and designed by George Fenkell, chief engineer. It replaced the c.1905 one I showed three pictures ago. Hubbell, the chief engineer of the Detroit Board of Water Commissioners. Had I known this at the time I might not have just sailed right in here, but what's done is done I suppose, and luckily I wasn't shot by Homeland Security for suspected terrorism.Īccording to a book about the Detroit Waterworks by Michael Daisy, this intake house was designed and built in 1932 by Clarence W. It represents the source of drinking water for basically all of Southeastern Michigan (approximately 5 million people) before it enters the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department's purification systems and distribution grid to reach your tap. This building is the Belle Isle Water Supply Intake, at the very northeast end of the isle.
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