What Is The Purpose Of Water Towers? - WaterWorld Magazine

Most people who live in suburbs are used to consistent, reliable water pressure. This is largely thanks to water towers.

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This article will discuss the uses and purpose of water towers, as well as how they’re built and how they work. 

What Is A Water Tower?

A water tower is a tall structure that holds a pressurized potable water system. 

Most water towers store potable (drinkable) water and operate in conjunction with drinking water reservoirs. 

Steel and concrete are two popular materials used in the construction of a water tower. Water towers have an interior coating to protect the water from contaminants in the outside materials. Most water towers are about 130 to 165 feet tall. 

Water towers are located on high ground to provide enough pressure to send water into a municipal water supply with enough force to supply all the customers in the area. A water pressure of about 0.43 PSI (pounds per square inch) is provided by every foot of height in a water tower. 

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A water tower’s tank is large, holding 1,000,000 gallons of water or more. Most water towers are sized to be able to hold up to one day’s worth of water for the community they serve.

Ed, I can't speak for knowing which one is the best, but if you are recreating something in a 40's Pennsylvania town I seem to recall from pictures of my parents coal patch town that for their town water supply they had a simple tall round tank much like an oil tank.   It had a guarded ladder cage to access the top, of which the bottom portion was removed to keep people from climbing it.    And it was located at the highest spot in town so it would serve well as a gravity water supply.

I love the Athearn style "water tank on stilts" but here in the east those are/were mostly used by factories as an industrial water supply for a sprinkler system.   And the "elevated spheroid" types are too new for steam era layouts.

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