Concrete Water Tank

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Gordon,
Nice catch with the satellite view of the holding ponds at Roanoke!
Interesting comparison with what is there now. Wish I had thought of that
when Google Maps was fairly new. In some of their captures of the Victory
Stadium area you could still see the stadium in the frames that weren't
updated. But pan a couple hundred feet (or less) and the stadium would
desolve in to a grassy field!
FWIW Dept., Hiram Hornbarger was one of the Vicker treatment plant
operators. He was the brother of W.P. Hornbarger, VGN section foreman, my
wife's grandfather, and featured in one of Aubrey's VGN calendars.
Charlie Long

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:31 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> The 2,000,000 reservoir was the second of that type installed on a hill
> above the Shaffers Crossing softening plant.  A pump house (still standing
> the last time I was in the vicinity) where Peters Creek flows into Roanoke
> River added alum to the water that it pumped up to the two 2,000,000
> open-top reservoirs where the alum served to settle solids before the water
> flowed by gravity down to the softening plant near the roundhouse.
>
> I am attaching a excerpt from the Roanoke City GIS system showing these
> reservoirs, which were subsequently destroyed by expansion of Roanoke
> Electric Steel (whatever it is call now).  As soon as I learned of their
> demise, I rushed to capture the GIS image before it was updated,
> eliminating the images of the reservoirs.
>
> Gordon
>
> Moderator:
>  http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2015/20150218.reservoirs.jpg
>
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 17, 2015 6:10 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Concrete Water Tank
>
> Gordon,
>
> The Data Book I have for 8/21/51 does not list Shaffers Crossing of the 17
> listed water softening plant throughout the system.  A quick look at the
> 1953 Annual Report states for property improvements: “At Roanoke, Va., a
> 2,000,000 gallon capacity concrete reservoir for storage of water.”
>
> It is very possible that it was complete and placed in service in ‘53.
>
> Sometime when in Roanoke I would like to review your copies of the data
> books to update the info I have.
>
> Bud
>
>
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