No water towers? (Atlanta, Forest Park, College Park: inspections, safety, design)

[cqholt]

Speaking for City of Atlanta, Hemphill Water Treatment is at one of the highest points in City Limits and provides plenty of pressure for the water distribution system

[arjay57]

One of my favorites is right there at the East Lake MARTA station. That used to be my landmark for coming home.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7654...7i16384!8i8192

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

Gonna see if I can link these Google map pics like samiwas just did. One is on on Blackjack Mountain off Roswell Road just outside the N Marietta loop, the other on top of Sweat Mountain in far NE Cobb near Sandy Plains and 92. Placing them on higher elevations does mean they don't have to be as tall as the flatter landscapes where you have lived.

Blackjack Mountain

Sweat Mountain

Too bad those hills are privately developed and not public parks.

[architect77]

Water towers supplement cities' systems to allow smaller pumps to be used and get some free help form gravity.

Water doesn't seem to be managed as a top priority here in Georgia, otherwise following the extreme drought in 2007 the state would have built a few new reservoirs as a safeguard for a growing metro Atlanta.

Here our state and municipalities only react to problems after they've occurred.

Water towers probably fall under the proactive planning, safeguarding for the future category.

Not much of that happens in the stewardship of the State of Georgia.

[LTCM]

Originally Posted by architect77

Water towers supplement cities' systems to allow smaller pumps to be used and get some free help form gravity.

It's not free at all... The water first has to be pumped up to the tower. They help maintain consistent pressure but their are plenty of other ways to do so.

Water towers are on the way out. Our lack of them isn't a sign of lack of investerment.

[jeoff]

Originally Posted by arjay57

One of my favorites is right there at the East Lake MARTA station. That used to be my landmark for coming home.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7654...7i16384!8i8192

Looks like they are in the middle of tearing that one down.
Sorry Arjay

[joey86]

This one is in the historic area of Roswell, off of Woodstock Street. There is another one next to Roswell City Hall, and a couple near Roswell High School off of Highway 92.

[ATLTJL]

I was curious as to what water towers do. I thought it was just storage for emergencies. Turns out, they serve a very important purpose.

In fact, this video made me wonder what the technological advances Gwinnett county employed to make them unnecessary.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZwfcMSDBHs

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by jeoff

Looks like they are in the middle of tearing that one down.
Sorry Arjay

Durn. Well, I guess things change, jeoff.

Wonder if I've still got time to drive by for a final look?

[Tyryztoll]

They have them, it's just not like Minnesota or Texas where you can see several of them sticking up across the horizon at any given point. The north Georgia terrain is obviously much hillier and canopied, which will mask many of the towers until you get right up on them. It also seemed to me that because the towers in those flatter places (I've lived in each aforementioned area) are so much more visible there's much more effort put into the aesthetics of them. Either that or the Georgia towns are just behind in upgrading theirs.