The establishment of Atlanta's first public water works system in 1875 was the culmination of a movement begun in 1866 by councilman Anthony Murphy. Murphy served as the first elected president of the Board of Water Commissioners. Shortly afterwards, the Atlanta Canal and Water Works Company was created with its mission to “secure for the city a constant and plentiful supply of water.” In 1869 the company was charged with the task of conveying water into the City of Atlanta from Peachtree Creek or any other stream. A new plan and site was selected on Poole’s Creek, a headwater of South River and the present site of Lakewood Park, becoming the source of Atlanta’s first water supply. In 1893, engineer Robert M. Clayton designed Atlanta’s second water works pumping station located on Hemphill Avenue at Fourteenth Street. With rapid population growth and tremendously increased demands of water in the City of Atlanta, engineers created an entirely new water system expansion using treated water from the Chattahoochee River and filters from the old South River station. Under the new City Charter of 1974, the Water Department became the Bureau of Water (later named the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management).