San Francisco Cisterns

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Interesting article:

It's a concrete vault, underneath the ground, says Ken Lombardi, Assistant Deputy Chief with the San Francisco Fire Department.

The vaults are called cisterns and theyre full of water.

This is our emergency water supply, Lombardi explains. As long as we pull that manhole cover, there'll be 75,000 gallons of water for us.

FULL ARTICLE: http://kalw.org/post/whats-beneath-those-brick-circles-san-francisco-intersections#stream/0

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great video on it

they have a well thought out and designed water suppy system with a great redundancy

be safe

MVS

[STAT213 332]

Cool. Anyone else use cisterns?

We have a number of them in our town. New construction can have sprinklers or cisterns.

Don't quite have the elegant redundancy of San Fran, but cisterns are part of our water supply system.