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Striider

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What is this? Rainwater storage?
« on: June 15, 2009, 11:25:44 AM »
So I found this rectangular tank looking thing on my remote property, but I am unsure what to think of it.  When I dug it out, it had a galvanized steel lid on it with a gutter spout hanging out of it.  The other side had a hole in the shape of a gutter spout, but the spout was missing and the pit was piled with dirt and rocks down to this grate in the picture.  It looks like they may have been collecting rain water from both side of the a-frame roof.  There is still mud and dirt down below the grate, and I see some water in there too.  Looks like it goes down another 3 or 4 feet.  Sent the picture to Ralph and he thinks it was rainwater storage also. I can't figure out how they would have removed water from the tank or how you would clean this thing out, since the grate seems welded in place.


Any other opinions or ideas what this may have been?


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