In New York, a PIPE PROGRESS article written by the distribution engineer of a local utilities services company describes a 3.5 mile extension project featuring AMERICAN pipe. AMERICAN, the author notes, "is the only manufacturer of large diameter centrifugal cast iron pipe. Therefore, we placed our order with them for 42-inch and 48-inch sizes." The article further notes that the project encountered several difficult obstacles, including attainments of rights-of-way and underground structures. While laying pipe in a creek along the pipe route, "Divers had to work by feel as the water was so completely saturated with sewage and refuse that it was impossible to see even so large an object as the pipe." In Chicago, AMERICAN is supplying pipe for the South District Filtration Plant. With a capacity of 320 MGD, it is the largest filtration plant in the world at that time. In the PIPE PROGRESS for the second quarter of 1947, AMERICAN devotes the entire issue to the upcoming American Water Works Association meeting in San Francisco. Editor's note: Tradition runs deep at AMERICAN, begun in 1905 and a leading manufacturer in the water works industry ever since. Fifty Years Ago provides a glimpse of the company's rich past.

Four lengths of 16-foot AMERICAN Cast Iron pipe connected together are shown moments before being lowered into the water in New York, 1947.