‘Pumpy’ pump house gets new roof
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - The pump house at the Pumping Station Dam in East Union Township, seen on July 30, 2024.
BRANDONVILLE – The old pump house at the Pumping Station Dam has a new roof as volunteer efforts to revitalize the area continue.
Much of the roof work was finished over the weekend by volunteers with the Pumpy Association with donated materials.
The volunteer group has been working for just over a year to revitalize the once-legendary recreation facility, which was a former water source for Shenandoah.
Shenandoah Borough has owned the facility since the early 20th century when it was a primary source of drinking water for the borough-owned Shenandoah Public Water Works, a predecessor to the current Municipal Authority.
When MABS was formed in the 1940s, merging the three companies, the Pumping Station Dam became a recreational area under the purview of the the Shenandoah Pumping Station Project Booster Club, the Pumping Station Recreation Committee, and most recently, the Shenandoah Pumping Station Preservation Association.
A 1961 article in the Shenandoah Evening Herald described the facility as “among the finest trout waters in the state.”
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