Old Water Tower maintenance note

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Road record · Mercy County Road Department

Record no. MCRD-OWT-M Posted 06/27

The old riveted water tower remains a visual field reference but is not maintained for public access.

The Old Water Tower on a steel trestle above two desert roads — Old Water Tower from the service road. No district lettering is visible on the tank.

Record details

Structure: Riveted tank on four-leg steel trestle
Identification: No lettering on tank
Public access: None
Lighting: No structure light

Maintenance note

The tower is not the Dry Wells municipal tank. It stands on a gravel rise beside an old service road and carries no town or district lettering.

The exterior ladder, catwalk, and upper platform have not been certified for public use. The structure remains useful to road crews as a field reference because its silhouette can be seen across the basin.

Archive handling note

Source: Mercy County Road Department maintenance note
Medium: Typed field note and archive photograph
Record date: Posted 06/27

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