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From the Archives: Water towers
05-21-1947 (cutline): Water tank was without any water.
05-11-1950 (cutline): For better South Side pressure--Workmen place steel plates on a 2,000,000-gallon water storage tank on Cofer Road designed to increase water pressures and to guard South Richmond against a possible river crossing water line break. The tank and new mains to serve will cost about $100,000.
10-09-1953 (cutline): A wire-pulling party adds strength to Church Hill tank.
10-13-1976 (cutline): Ever wonder what it would be like to be the painter of lettering on an elevated water tower? It might be a bad job, but it definitely isn't one for the faint of heart, as these pictures taken in South Hill show. The foreman for a Dominion Tank & Iron Co. crew applies the town's lettering to the 500,000-gallon tank along East Atlantic Street.
12-19-1971: Water tower under construction.
01-25-1976 (cutline): The top of a 70-foot-high water storage tank, being build just off U.S. 60 by Chesterfield County, rises abouve the houses of Pocono subdivision. The country began construction of the 1.5-million-gallon water tank late last fall and completion is expected sometime this spring.
02-26-1989 (cutline): Fill'er Up0--This water tower off Courthouse Road in Prince George County was not quite ready to be filled. In fact, it had to be filled out first. The tower was under construction and several of the top sections had not yet been put in place.
In February 1948, icicles formed a winter tableau along a water tower at Sixth and Porter streets in South Richmond.
Not far from the intersection of Buford Road and Forest Hill Avenue, the Bon Air water tower touts the area’s longevity.
Lucky Strike Water Tower, Main and Pear Street.
The initial boil water advisory issued Tuesday by the city of Richmond was in effect for neighborhoods served by this water tank in Ginter Park. The city later expanded the advisory to also include a section of South Side.
A watertower on the Virginia State University campus holds a T-Mobile antenna and a radio tower holds a Verizon antenna.
In June 1951, this water storage tank on University of Richmond property began holding water for the city of Richmond. The city sold water to Henrico County, and the tank would help serve some of its needs.
This 100,000-gallon tank in Waverly used to store treated drinking water was taken offline after lead-based primer paint was found exposed inside.
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