Rockaway Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility
One of Joseph's least glamorous jobs may also be one of the most essential.
Looking north at the Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant, at the Rockaway Freeway and Beach 108th Street in Seaside / Rockaway Park, Queens. Looking from a Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street-bound…. Photographed in 2018; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2018 · Photo: Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Rockaway Sewage Plant — 1951
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-013
1 of two
“Rockaway Sewage Plant — 1951”
DEP records say the first stage of Rockaway's wastewater plant was built in 1951 and opened in 1952.
A piece of invisible city-building: Joseph's masonry helped create infrastructure that still treats wastewater for the Rockaway Peninsula.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Probable
Likely: most likely heavy-duty CMU/concrete-block enclosure and equipment-room walls, interior partitions, shafts and masonry backup; specialized refractory/stone work should not be assumed without specifications.
This scope is recorded as probable, not documented. It is a disciplined reading of the building and the trade practice of the period, not a contract-level record of Kelly’s work.
The construction team
The construction team for this job has not yet been established.
What happened to it
Still standing
Sources
2 citedOpen →
- Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Taken on 2
Looking north at the Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant, at the Rockaway Freeway and Beach 108th Street in Seaside / Rockaway Park, Queens. Looking from a Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street-bound…. Photographed in 2018; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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