{"id":15466,"date":"2010-06-04T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=15466"},"modified":"2010-06-15T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T12:31:30","slug":"water-towers-to-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/06\/water-towers-to-be-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Towers to be Replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A view of two aging water towers that are to be dismantled and replaced with a new one. Photo by Peter Morenus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two aging water towers on UConn\u2019s Storrs campus are being taken down this summer and replaced with a new one million-gallon water tank. The older of the two towers to be removed held 300,000 gallons and was originally constructed in 1914.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe older tower was built before America\u2019s entry into the First World War and is held together with rivets because it pre-dates modern welding,\u201d says John Warner, a staff member in UConn\u2019s Department of Architectural and Engineering Services.<\/p>\n

The other, constructed in the 1930s, is a 600,000-gallon tank and is topped by a roughly 80 year-old lookout tower that was used to spot fires on campus and throughout the region until the mid-1960s. The University is working to remove the fire lookout and give it to the state Department of Environmental Protection\u2019s fire suppression division. The DEP is evaluating options for the tower, one of which is displaying it in a museum. According to the Forest Fire Lookout Association, the fire tower is one of only a small number left on the East Coast.<\/p>\n

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The fire observation station atop one of the old water towers. Photo by Peter Morenus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a piece of UConn\u2019s history and we like the idea of it being preserved,\u201d says Ernie Dore of UConn\u2019s Facilities Department, who is a member of the association and worked to save the lookout post.<\/p>\n

The small circular structure sits atop the tower and is surrounded by windows. A disconnected phone that was used to call in reports remains there, unused for decades.<\/p>\n

Both towers are located between Husky Village and the Towers residence halls. A million-gallon tower that was built in 1954 stands next to them. Another million-gallon tower will be built in the same place as the towers that are being taken down.<\/p>\n

The towers are being removed because their age makes them difficult to maintain and more prone to problems. The cost of taking them down and building a new tower will be roughly $2.5 million. The project will be funded through the UConn 2000\/21st Century UConn program.<\/p>\n

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A view from one of the water towers. Photo by Peter Morenus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An 80 year-old fire lookout atop one of the towers will be donated to the DEP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-15466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 20:13:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16049,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions\/16049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}