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CTMQ > ASCE Landmarks

ASME: Rocky River Hydro-Electric Plant

November 24, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

ASME Landmark # 56 (1927) Rocky River Hydro-Electric Plant New Milford "The statement that a hydro-electric plant can pump its own water supply sounds absurd on the face of it, yet this is virtually what happens in the case of the Rocky River Hydro Plant..." - Chief Engineer Paul Heslop, Connecticut Society of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, National "Stuff", Superlatives Tagged With: ASCE Landmarks, ASME Landmarks, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Industrial History, New Milford

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