No, the water pressure was inadequate so this one was removed and another one built at a physically higher location. There is now a store where this water tower was.
Ah I see, nobody inside but it sure looked like it. I was thinking "how did that guy get the giant balls of iron he must have inside there to do that?" Oh, and very cool noise indeed.
Any architects out there? What are the usual factors of safety for this type of water tower? There's the normal compressive load due to the water and then wind loading. Is there a maximum shear force due to an earthquake in the design basis? Does each stress get a different factor of safety? Which stress requires the most steel to resist? Is it two separate structures with the inner structure responsible for the weight of the water and the outer shell responsible for the wind loading? Both have their own or no earthquake resistance? Any insights on the foundation?
I have evaluated soils for a number of foundations for this type of tower. The foundations I have seen have been a circular frost wall on a footing that's several feet wide. Backfill placed inside and outside of the circular wall is well compacted to provide sufficient weight, a large portion of which is weighing down the extended edges of the footing. That soil essentially becomes part of the foundation, because it is the aspect that resists uplift. Due to the geometry of load-spreading in soil, the volume of soil weighing down the foundation is substantially larger than the volume which only occupies the area directly above exposed portions of the footing as viewed from above (in other words, the horizontal dimensions of the soil functioning as weight increases with increasing height above the footing).
J Pils The tower WAS round. Once it hit the ground collapsing the side the air needed to escape. Much like stepping on an empty water jug. Air escapes.
I went to high school in nekoosa rode past this tower every day on the bus. 2012 I would have been a freshman in high school. Thing is I would have noticed if this tower disappeared but I have no memory of this tower going away.
How did I not see this?? I live by here! Why is everyone here? I used to live here when I was a kid. I was probably in school when they did this and like..
Not much smaller when knocked down. They should have cut it up with linear shaped charges and let it fall in place. Job was probably done by the local water department.
Glenn Jordan The tank was no longer effectively serving the community. A new tower was built in a higher location, improving pressure throughout the City and in proximity of a new business park.
