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The Belton Standpipe, in Belton, South Carolina, historically known as the Belton Waterworks Tower, is a 155-foot high concrete water tower located near the downtown area. Construction on the tower began in 1908 and was completed in 1909. [2] [3] It is the tallest of three standpipe water towers in the state. [4]
The easiest way to construct a good military map is to use an existing map of the area required as a base layer. Depending on the source, this existing map can often be used "as–is, without any copyright issues. Alternatively, a copyright map can be used as a base to allow one to trace the necessary map features in creating a new, "own work" map.
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.
The pipe in the tunnel has an inside diameter of 22 feet (6.7 m). [3] The East Side tunnel was the largest sewer construction project ever undertaken by the City of Portland. A contractor, Kiewit-Bilfinger Berger (KBB), used a tunnel boring machine that was 300 feet (91 m) long and had a cutting head that was 25 feet (7.6 m) in diameter. In ...
The Chad–Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project was a controversial project to develop the production capacity of oilfields near Doba in southern Chad, and to create 1,070-kilometre (660 mi) pipeline to transport the oil to a floating storage and offloading vessel), anchored off the coast of Cameroon, near the city of
A 20-year series of related CSO projects, including the West Side Big Pipe, culminated in late 2011 with completion of the East Side Big Pipe. The combined projects reduced the city's sewer overflows into the Willamette River by 94 percent and into the Columbia Slough by more than 99 percent. [ 5 ]
It was the final piece in the construction of a natural gas pipeline transporting gas from Corpus Christi, Texas to Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan, which carries 500 million cubic feet (14 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of gas a day at a pressure of 850 pounds per square inch (5,900 kPa). Work began in September, 1953.
The Polo Grounds Towers from Coogan's Bluff Polo Grounds Towers from West 155th Street, with the Macombs Dam Bridge and the Bronx in the background The 15.15-acre (6.13 ha) hollow, bordered by Frederick Douglass Boulevard , West 155th Street and Harlem River Drive , is currently home to the Polo Grounds Towers housing complex: four 30-story ...