I'd tend to agree. It's probably part of the water distribution system for austin, looks like there's a pump house and the tank is probably a holding tank. Looking at the terrain map, it appears to be along a ridge that's slightly higher than the surrounding area, and that's often where pumping stations are sited.
In fact, my google GIS skills haven't failed me. Check this Major Water Facilities map in PDF and you'll see a pump station and reservoir noted right there.
Re: There we go...cratermoonOctober 9 2008, 21:58:57 UTC
Back in college when I studied journalism a spent a couple of assignments learning about how to dig around in public records for just this sort of thing. I bet they don't even bother to teach that any more.
That's a very typical Badger thing to say. Thanks so much for your homespun wisdome. :-)
However, what KIND of water tank? What is its purpose? Why is it there? Is it a ground level Water "tower" used for producing water pressure? (It is kinda on a hill...)
I'm reminded of the joke about MS tech support, which ends with, "100% true but 100% useless". (though, honestly, my initial replay was even more useless).
(edit: weird. I thought I put this in the reply stream under your comment about badger's post. le sigh.)
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In fact, my google GIS skills haven't failed me. Check this Major Water Facilities map in PDF and you'll see a pump station and reservoir noted right there.
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It's a pumping station and reservoir.
CM wins. Badger gets honorable mention.
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However, what KIND of water tank? What is its purpose? Why is it there? Is it a ground level Water "tower" used for producing water pressure? (It is kinda on a hill...)
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Ha ha ha ha ha...
Sorry.
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(though, honestly, my initial replay was even more useless).
(edit: weird. I thought I put this in the reply stream under your comment about badger's post. le sigh.)
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