- The Monroe Avenue Water Filtration Plant is a municipal water treatment plant located at 430 Monroe Avenue NW in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- The plant was expanded in 1924, and a pipeline to Lake Michigan was added in 1938. A final expansion occurred in 1957, but the plant ceased operation in 1961.
- 1945 - Grand Rapids is the first city to add fluoride to drinking water from a public water filtration system.
- County: Kent County. Grand Rapids ; 1430 Monroe Ave. ... Title: Monroe Avenue Water Filtration Plant. National Register Information System ID: 02000815.
- Engineers at the Monroe Avenue Water Filtration Plant begin adding a carefully controlled amount of sodium fluoride to the city’s water supply.
- CONTACT INFORMATION Monroe Water Treatment Plant 734 241-5947.
- ...built a massive filtration plant on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the Monroe Avenue plant was used as a backup plant once again relying on Grand River water.
- GRAND RAPIDS — City commissioners released a deed restriction on the former Monroe Avenue Water Filtration plant last week and now Ed De Vries Properties...
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- The Monroe Avenue Water Filtration Plant is a municipal water treatment plant located at 430 Monroe Avenue NW in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes the first city to fluoridate when engineers at the Monroe Avenue Water Filtration Plant begin adding a carefully controlled amount...
- The Monroe Water Filtration Plant in Grand Rapids opened in 1912 and closed in 1992.
- Low income families aren't likely to buy bottled water or water filtration systems, either.
