This post is really to supplement my Water in the Desert post from yesterday; I wanted to include some pictures of the cistern we used to play on, because that was one of my favorite parts from that post. So while we were out at my parents’ place today, I snapped a few pictures.
Here’s a view of the thing. The concrete’s a little worse for the wear after 20+ years, but you can see it’s shaped like a box, and has those weird steel blade-looking things sticking out of it. Like rebar, only sharper. And sideways. Plus, you can get a sense of its height; I was standing on an elevated spot, and the top was still over my head a bit, and I’m six feet tall.Holding the camera over my head and shooting blindly… here’s the top of the cistern. Nice and flat. The pumphouse is adjoining; from the cistern you could wander around on top the pumphouse. That wasn’t as much fun though.Nice view along the side, closeup on the blade thingy. Yes, we would climb on those. They’re what, maybe an eighth of an inch thick.
that thing still holdin water?
Yep. It’s a multi-layered affair, the concrete is merely the outside shell surrounding an interior tank.