Watertower Watch, Conclusion
Today, while running errands, I noticed the water tower guys are at it again. I decided to go talk with them.
FACTS:
- The top of the tower is being replaced, due to some kind of damage
- This tower is 120 feet tall, and considered a medium size tower. I was told that there’s one in Chesapeake City that’s 160 feet high
- This tower holds 1.5 million gallons of water
- One gallon of water weighs about 8.35 pounds (Roughly, over 12.5 million lbs/5500+ tons)
- There is no internal pipe, but the water flows through the main stem (shown below)
- There’s a basement
(This is looking up on the inside. Finally – I’ve seen inside the main column)
One of two new cravistans for the tower. There’s a rock in the picture to show scale. It’s bigger than the engine in my car.
This concludes this series in my water tower renovation coverage (see part one and part two).
Tags: blogging journalism, watertower
May 10th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
There’s a basement???!!!
May 11th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
But WHY, Professor? Is this drinking water? Does it flow out of the tower to your house? Or does it just sit around in case there’s an emergency and we need some extra water? If everybody’s water came from a tower, wouldn’t there be a lot more towers? Does it go up and down the same stem? Then why make a 120 foot vertical detour at all?
I could look up the answers to these questions myself, but I know that you have ancient and esoteric knowledge that the internet lacks. Lay it on me.
March 6th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
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