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Title: New rural water tower
Post by: peanut on March 24, 2010, 08:12:44 PM
Have you noticed the new water tower south of Moline on Hwy. 99 ?
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Post by: peanut on March 24, 2010, 08:15:23 PM
Wow, it worked the pic is there, it wasnt there when I previewed it. Anyhow I took this pic with my phone going down thw Hwy.
Title: Re: New rural water tower
Post by: Rudy Taylor on March 24, 2010, 08:26:56 PM
Help! It's falling!
;D
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Post by: pepelect on March 24, 2010, 08:31:23 PM
Its the leaning tower of Belnap. 


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Post by: Diane Amberg on March 25, 2010, 10:15:47 AM
Ha! ;D ;D ;D Good looking tower.I wonder how much water it holds.
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Post by: Delbert on March 25, 2010, 02:05:27 PM
It holds 114 gallons and 2 tablespoons.
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Post by: Diane Amberg on March 25, 2010, 02:22:37 PM
 ;D ;D ;D Did you use a measuring cup? 
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Post by: peanut on March 25, 2010, 06:00:34 PM
Looked like they were painting it when I took the pic. I noticed that there is water pipe being put in the ground south of Sedan as well as south and west of Moline. I was wondering how much water the tower held too.
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Post by: Wilma on March 25, 2010, 06:44:24 PM
I thought he said he used a tablespoon.
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Post by: Diane Amberg on March 25, 2010, 08:30:39 PM
I wonder how long that took. I was going to guess 500,000 gal. but  I don't know of course. 
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Post by: Delbert on March 27, 2010, 07:37:34 AM
You're 2 gallons off.
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Post by: Diane Amberg on March 27, 2010, 08:32:37 AM
Over or under? Gotta get this right, our national security depends on it. ;D
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Post by: W. Gray on March 30, 2010, 03:19:16 PM
This water tower is at about mile marker 20 on K-99 highway, on the east side right about 50 feet from the roadway.

At about mile marker 24 and to the west of K-99 by quite a bit is another new water tower, of the standpipe variety, that appears to be much taller and appears finished.
Title: Re: New rural water tower
Post by: peanut on March 30, 2010, 08:04:26 PM
Been doing some reading on this and they say the water towers for a community such as ours would be capable of holding enough water for about 1 day. Apperantly they are on contiuos fill and there hight is set using a formula to maintain a certain amount of pressure, somewhere around 9 to 13 psi.
Ifound this info on How Stuff Works .com they have a lot of really cool looking towers of all shapes and sizes.