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Jim Grigsby

March 20, 2017 03:47PM

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One reason for putting the tank on the roof, aside from gravity, was that the sun would heat the water during the day. If the tank were black it could get quite warm. The old forest Service guard station at Antlers, below Whitney, had a setup like this before they turned it into a vacation rental. In that case there was no gravity flow, so the water had to be carried up to the tank in buckets. It probably limited the length and number of showers taken.

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