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Plans and cost outlook outlined for Mount Airy water-tank rehabilitation
Summary
Water Works presented a design-build rehabilitation plan for the Mount Airy tanks, stressing historic-preservation constraints, a phased schedule and a likely multi‑million dollar construction price.
Greater Cincinnati Water Works staff detailed a design-build rehabilitation of the Mount Airy tanks, emphasizing the site’s historic-landmark status, community interest in preserving the tanks’ exterior and the project’s likely scale and schedule.
“It's clearly a community icon,” said Annie Orth, Deputy Director for Infrastructure, describing the Mount Airy tanks at Coleraine and North Bend. Orth said the structure — constructed in 1926 and declared a City of Cincinnati historic landmark in February 2018 — contains 14 interior tanks (seven large, seven small) with roughly 8,400,000 gallons of storage across the footprint.
Orth described the project as a progressive design-build contract with two phases:…
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