Health Departments: Pictures of Cooling Towers

Key points

  • Use these photos to serve as examples for identifying cooling towers in buildings.
  • In an outbreak scenario, identifying cooling towers quickly and accurately is essential to limiting the number of people exposed to Legionella.
A cooling tower with fan blades visible.

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A picture of a large cooling tower with easily visible water lines.
A picture of a large cooling tower with easily visible water lines.
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A picture of a cooling tower with easily visible fan blades.
A picture of a cooling tower with easily visible fan blades.
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A picture of older and newer cooling towers installed next to each other.
A picture of older and newer cooling towers installed next to each other.
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A cooling tower with side fans (highlighted with arrows), which are difficult to see from aerial photographs.
A cooling tower with side fans (highlighted with arrows), which are difficult to see from aerial photographs.
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A round-shaped cooling tower; cooling towers coming in various shapes, sizes, and configurations.
A round-shaped cooling tower; cooling towers coming in various shapes, sizes, and configurations.
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An elevated, round-shaped cooling tower.
An elevated, round-shaped cooling tower.
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An elevated cooling tower with a side fan that is not visible.
An elevated cooling tower with a side fan that is not visible.

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An aerial picture of two banks of cooling towers on top of a large building.
An aerial picture of two banks of cooling towers on top of a large building.
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An aerial picture of several structures with varying sizes of cooling towers easily visible.
An aerial picture of several structures with varying sizes of cooling towers easily visible.
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An aerial picture of a large building with multiple cooling towers on top.
An aerial picture of a large building with multiple cooling towers on top.
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An aerial picture of several buildings that have air conditioning units, not cooling towers.
An aerial picture of several buildings that have air conditioning units, not cooling towers.
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An aerial picture of several buildings that do not have cooling towers.
An aerial picture of several buildings that do not have cooling towers.
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Content Source:
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; National Center for Environmental Health