Historic Cisterns

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Lehman57 Guru Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Louisville, OH Posts: 1925 Good Answers: 36	Historic Cisterns 07/14/2020 11:05 AM
	This isn't your normal engineering question! Instead, class it as Civil Engineering from the late 1800s. I'm looking for information on the annual maintenance requirements for fire fighting cisterns in the late 1800s. Can someone lead me to a source of this information? Using the DuckDuckGo search engine, there seems to be plenty of info on the web, but it tends to the modern and to references to cisterns for other uses such as potable water. But I have found little about maintenance (replastering, etc) required for non-potable water. Thanks. __________________ Lehman57
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MR. Guest Guru Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: ''but, don't we get PAID to ask questions?...'' Posts: 1661 Good Answers: 17	#1 Re: Historic Cisterns 07/14/2020 11:25 AM
	If it is good enough for potable water, then it should be plenty good enough for non-potable water too... Maybe, you can get pointed in the right direction at: https://www.awwa.org/ __________________ ''illigitimi non carborundum...''(i.e.: don't let the fatherless (self-deluding,sabotaging, long-term-memory-impaired, knee-jerking, cheap-shotting, mono-syllabic, self-annointed, shadow-lurking, back-biting, off-topic-inquisitors) grind you down...)
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Lehman57 Guru Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Louisville, OH Posts: 1925 Good Answers: 36	#4 In reply to #1 Re: Historic Cisterns 07/15/2020 10:06 AM
	Guest: Yes, if intended for potable water. But if it was never intended for potable water, the requirements would be considerably relaxed. __________________ Lehman57
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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	#2 Re: Historic Cisterns 07/14/2020 12:00 PM
	The cistern should be drained and cleaned once a year...repair as needed... __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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Doorman Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Yellowstone Valley, in Big Sky Country Posts: 7425 Good Answers: 295	#3 Re: Historic Cisterns 07/14/2020 2:14 PM
	Not certain if this will lead to any answers, but you might go right to a manufacturer of wooden tanks that has been around for a long time. For example: https://rosenwachtank.com/tanks.php These guys seem to be pretty much in the know about water storage tanks. __________________ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
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MR. Guest Guru Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: ''but, don't we get PAID to ask questions?...'' Posts: 1661 Good Answers: 17	#5 Re: Historic Cisterns 07/15/2020 4:52 PM
	...or, you could just call the Cleveland, Ohio Fire Department and ask how they maintain their aged fire water supply cisterns... __________________ ''illigitimi non carborundum...''(i.e.: don't let the fatherless (self-deluding,sabotaging, long-term-memory-impaired, knee-jerking, cheap-shotting, mono-syllabic, self-annointed, shadow-lurking, back-biting, off-topic-inquisitors) grind you down...)
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Lehman57 Guru Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Louisville, OH Posts: 1925 Good Answers: 36	#6 In reply to #5 Re: Historic Cisterns 07/15/2020 8:25 PM
	Guest: Good idea, which escaped me! I have several contacts at the Cleveland Fire Museum, which includes numerous firefighters. I'll contact their historian who I know and who usually deals with the apparatus instead of the infrastructure. __________________ Lehman57
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