Visit to the Old Wastewater Treatment Plant,

This time we focused our walk on an industrial monument about a quarter of an hour's walk from our university, located in Prague 6 Bubenč. The Old sewage treatment plant was built and commissioned in 1906. The British civil engineer William Heerlein Lindley was responsible for the construction of the sewerage system and the technical parameters of the sewage treatment plant.  Treated wastewater  was discharged  into the nearby river Vltava, therefore it was necessary to monitor the chemical composition of the treated water.  Julie Hamáčková, who was one of the first women to study at the Prague Technical University, became the head of the  operational analytical laboratory. She participated in the development of the methodology for the chemical analysis of utility and waste water.  Later, in the 1950s, she was the first woman to be appointed professor of water chemistry and became dean of the Faculty of Fuels and Water Technology.
 Today, the sewage treatment plant is no longer in operation. In 1967 it was replaced by a newly built treatment plant on nearby Císařský Island. In the old sewage treatment plant, the technical equipment has been preserved, including the steam engine that powered the entire technology equipment through the transmissions. 

After finishing the tour of the sewage treatment plant, our group, led by our guide Martin Bělohradský, walked through the adjacent part of Stromovka Park (Royal Game Reserve) from the Císařský Mill to the Gate leading to the church of St. Gotthard.
We passed by the magnificent villas in the residential district Bubeneč and we managed to get a glimpse of the beautiful interiors of Villa Lanna, which is the property of the Czech Academy of Sciences.