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2. Water tower - Wikipedia

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   Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank (1875, restored 2012), Beaumont, Kansas, US. Although the use of elevated water storage tanks has existed since ancient times in various forms, the modern use of water towers for pressurized public water systems developed during the mid-19th century, as steam-pumping became more common, and better pipes that could handle higher pressures ...

3. Standpipe (firefighting) - Wikipedia

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   External access point for fire sprinkler and dry standpipe at a building in San Francisco, US Antique wet standpipe preserved at Edison and Ford Winter Estates. A standpipe or riser is a type of rigid water piping which is built into multi-story buildings in a vertical position, or into bridges in a horizontal position, to which fire hoses can be connected, allowing manual application of water ...

4. Compton Hill Reservoir Park - Wikipedia

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   The Compton Hill Water Tower, built in 1898, is the youngest of three remaining stand pipe-water towers in St. Louis. Whereas, in 1901, more than 423 stand pipe style water towers existed in the United States , [ 4 ] as of 2008 only about a dozen remain standing, three of which are in St. Louis (the other two being the Bissell Tower and the ...

5. Category : Water towers in the United States by state or ...

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   Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places by state (14 C) A. Water towers in Alabama (1 P) Water towers in Arkansas (1 C) C. Water towers in California ...

6. Comanche PWA approves monitoring system for water towers - AOL

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   Aug. 17—COMANCHE — The Comanche Public Works Authority (PWA) heard updates on monitoring systems for water towers and decided to rescind an action taken at a previous board meeting. In the ...

7. Water distribution system - Wikipedia

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   An example of a water distribution system: a pumping station, a water tower, water mains, fire hydrants, and service lines [1] [2]. A water distribution system is a part of water supply network with components that carry potable water from a centralized treatment plant or wells to consumers to satisfy residential, commercial, industrial and fire fighting requirements.