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  2. Rooftop water tower - Wikipedia

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    A rooftop water tower is a variant of a water tower, consisting of a water container placed on the roof of a tall building. This structure supplies water pressure to floors at higher elevation than public water towers. [1] As building height increases, the vertical height of its plumbing also increases. This produces a large water column and ...

  3. Water tower - Wikipedia

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    The height of the tower provides the pressure for the water supply system, ... The rooftop water towers store 250,000 to 500,000 litres (55,000 to 110,000 imp gal ...

  4. List of tallest buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    Height to architectural top (including spires and pinnacles, but not antennas, masts or flagpoles). This measurement is the most widely used and is used to define the rankings of the 100 Tallest Buildings in the World. Highest occupied floor; Height to top of roof (omitted from criteria from November 2009 onwards) [23] Height to tip

  5. Union Watersphere - Wikipedia

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    However photographs of the Erwin water tower revealed the new tower to be a water spheroid. [12] The water tower in Braman, Oklahoma, built by the Kaw Nation and completed in 2010, is 220.6 ft (67.2 m) tall and can hold 350,000 US gallons (1,300 m 3). [13] Slightly taller than the Union Watersphere, it is technically a spheroid. [14]

  6. List of tallest structures in the United States by height

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    Media General Tower Jackson Jackson, Mississippi: Guyed Mast 491 m WHNS TV-Tower: Brevard, North Carolina: Guyed Mast 490.7 m KOBR-TV Tower: Caprock, New Mexico: Guyed Mast 490.2 m Joint Venture TV Tower Bithlo Bithlo, Florida: Guyed Mast 489.2 m American Towers Tower Bithlo Bithlo, Florida Guyed Mast 488 m NYT Broadcast Holdings Tower Oklahoma

  7. List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The Wilshire Grand Center is the tallest building in Los Angeles, California, measuring 1,100 feet (335.3 m) in height. The Wilshire Grand became the city's tallest building upon its completion 2017, and is also currently the tallest building in the state , the tallest building in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River , as well as the 15th ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Hyperboloid structure - Wikipedia

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    Shukhov Tower, a lattice 37-meter water tower by Vladimir Shukhov. All-Russian Exposition, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1896. Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures, such as towers, where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an ...