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Old April 30th 05, 05:50 PM
houstondan
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Nathan Young wrote:
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Really? This surprises me. Water towers offer a lot of benefits.


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american water works assn and most states still consider elevated water
best, ground tank on a hill works fine, but the costs for maintenance,
worker and community issues get pretty rough. the real issues are
firefighting with a dead electric grid and keeping the system
pressurized for health issues. sometimes, if you're clever, you can
get/stay certified with ground storage only by strapping in enough big
deisel generators to keep the pressure up.

personally, i like having lots of water towers with place names on them
as an easy and reasuring answer to the question "where the heck am i??"
although often as not the city name is covered with spray paint
announcing that sally did tommy which isn't much help unless you happen
to know sally. hence the aforementioned maintenance issue.


dan