I was wondering about that after I saw the plans for the plant along the Missouri River.Whitepanther wrote: I forgot to mention that some of the pics were from the Bissell plant...
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Chain of Rocks Water Intake towers?
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Re: Chain of Rocks Water Intake towers?
Good eye Nic! I didn’t know hardly anything about this supply system prior to coming across these docs. The one on the Missouri River is the Howard Bend plant. It’s in the Creve Couer Lake area across the Earth City Expressway and has a 60” main running to Stacy Park on Olive. The strange looking building that has artificial grass on the roof with the words danger is Stacy Park I guess. From what I gathered that’s a less attractive looking Compton Hill type system without the tower. It’s a helluva feat in engineering all the way around though.Nicotti wrote:I was wondering about that after I saw the plans for the plant along the Missouri River.Whitepanther wrote: I forgot to mention that some of the pics were from the Bissell plant...
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The towers are armed with a counter-terrorism security system. If you get close enough it will attempt to capsize your vessel to slurp you in.
If the tower must be breached though, you must be prepared to fight fire with fire.
If the tower must be breached though, you must be prepared to fight fire with fire.
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When was the Chain of Rocks bridge built? I'm pretty sure this image is looking upstream and no bridge.Whitepanther wrote:
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I think you’re right. Don’t know when it was built but I wonder if they caught any fish with that dynamite. Some of those spoonbills are huge!Nicotti wrote:When was the Chain of Rocks bridge built? I'm pretty sure this image is looking upstream and no bridge.
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The COR bridge was first opened in 1929.
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Bet that sharp turn in the middle of the bridge was fun to navigate with those big cars from that era.the_p0ssum wrote:The COR bridge was first opened in 1929.
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It's got nothing on the old zigzag MO approach to the MacArthur bridge.Whitepanther wrote:Bet that sharp turn in the middle of the bridge was fun to navigate with those big cars from that era.
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Awesome post card. What a wild bridge lol.Nicotti wrote:It's got nothing on the old zigzag MO approach to the MacArthur bridge.Whitepanther wrote:Bet that sharp turn in the middle of the bridge was fun to navigate with those big cars from that era.
Re: Chain of Rocks Water Intake towers?
One of you all that have a drone might want to fly around the intake towers before the crest. The water is only about 2 ft below the buildings right now.
They have the old Chain of Rocks bridge closed on the MO side and the other side is all flooded so there's no good vantage point to view the towers from except for the sky.
They have the old Chain of Rocks bridge closed on the MO side and the other side is all flooded so there's no good vantage point to view the towers from except for the sky.
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
Re: Chain of Rocks Water Intake towers?
The water is above the bases and flooding the pump houses currently.
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“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
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Old school diving
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Re: Chain of Rocks Water Intake towers?
I haven't been able to find much information about the incident yet, but apparently the steamboat Majestic partially sunk near Tower #2. They had to bring in a steamboat dredge to help recover it. I'll post more about it as I find things.
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Steamer Majestic wrecked on Tower 2, from STL Pub. Library Digital Collections
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