Millglen Filter Station Site, Dalry Road 1 5
August 2003
Millglen Filter Station occupied
this site from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Construction of an extension to
the Filter Station started in April 1958. It was formally opened on 3 October
1959 by Provost James Dorrian. The extension included a new filter house, a filter
attendant's house and a high level water storage tank with a capacity of 85000
gallons. The filter house had five filter shells with room for a further three
and could filter 60000 gallons of water a day. It
cost about £70000.
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to read a report on the opening of the Millglen Filter Station on 3 October 1959.