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The money is being given to the Friends of Pump House, an organization in the umbrella of the Friends of the James River Park. The foundation estimates they need another $5 to $7 million to fully renovate the building.
“Basically we have no access to our funds,” said Friends of Pump House President Penn Markham after the group was left hanging by the foundation's demise.
The Pump House, located in Richmond’s Byrd Park District, is a shuttered, dilapidated municipal building constructed in the 1880s. Its sole purpose was to move about 12 million gallons of drinking water per day from the James River and Kanawha Canal up to the reservoir at Bird Park.