A New Water Tower

We often  have water shortages.  We have a well and we have towers with huge tanks sitting on them so we can store water and, hopefully, have water most of the time.  A couple of weeks ago, the guard came to the door and told Marc there was a problem with one of the towers.  Marc went to look.  And he wasn't kidding.  There was a huge problem.  One of the towers was about to collapse.  It had two tanks on it.  Since it was Saturday morning, there wasn't a lot that could be done, but waiting until Monday would have been dangerous.  Marc kicked it into high gear and did what had to be done to prop up and support the tower until Monday.

On Monday, the first thing that had to be done was drain the tanks.  That was sickening  Knowing how valuable a resource water is, and how often we do without it, made me ill to think of all that water being drained.  We salvaged what we could.  Then the old tower came down.

This is what the top of the tower looked like and why it was about to collapse.

Everything was disassembled and, of course, took far longer than anyone expected, taking more than a week to rebuild.  There was welding and running for more parts and more welding.  When completed, the new tower was no where near the concrete pad on which the tower was to be.  So, what's the problem?  There wasn't one in the minds of the workers.  The huge heavy tower was carried to where it needed to be.

Then it was uprighted on the pad and set it place.  And then, a few days later, the tower was complete, the tubes reattached, the water hooked up, and we had water again.  

Terri