Yonkers Sewage Treatment Plant — 1973 sludge-thickening / process work
Joseph's 1973 sewage-plant job lines up with a documented sludge-treatment modernization.
From Rita’s list
No building photograph is currently assigned.
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Strong
Rita’s list
Transcription: Yonkers Sewage Plant — 1973
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
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“Yonkers Sewage Plant — 1973”
EPA records specifically cite centrifugal thickening at Yonkers in 1973.
The 1973 Yonkers sewage project was not the birth of the treatment plant; it was a technical upgrade involving centrifugal sludge thickening. In plain language, the work made the waste stream smaller and easier to process before disposal. That distinction matters. Rita's list records the less glamorous alterations that kept essential infrastructure working, and it shows how a masonry contractor's job could sit inside a much larger mechanical process.
Research pass v1.1 — Verified. | v3.6.12 photo selected and staged: KM-104_Yonkers_WWTP_Savin_aerial.webp
What Kelly did here
Family source
Strong
Likely concrete-block/brick process-building walls, equipment-room partitions, shafts and localized masonry around sludge/process structures; not the primary reinforced-concrete tanks themselves.
This scope is recorded as strong, 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
Yonkers Joint Wastewater Treatment Plant, Yonkers, NY
Sources
5 citedOpen →
- 01nepis.epa.gov
ZyPURL.cgi
- 02govinfo.gov
CZIC hd4479 n7 n49 1986
- 03yonkerstimes.com
city of yonkers to purchase waterfront property along hudson river creating new
- 04geerassociation.org
2012 GEER Sandy report V2 feb 19
- 05savinengineers.com
yonkers joint wastewater treatment plant
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