Emerald Channel Water Intake
Next time you're at LaSalle Park and you're gazing out onto the lake, you will see a building at the mouth of the Niagara River that looks like a giant acorn. It's the Emerald Channel Water Intake, a 1907 structure that, with the help of gravity, takes in 125 million gallons of lake water a day.
The water is piped directly to the Colonel Ward Pumping Station (see on Navigetter) where it undergoes a filtering process so that the residents of Buffalo have fresh drinking water.
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