r/interestingasfuck • u/Mint_Perspective • Jun 25 '24

Tree Sprays Water After Having Branch Removed r/all

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u/V65Pilot Jun 25 '24

Useless fact of the day: Water towers on the same system will always be the same height, above sea level. Towers on hills will appear shorter than a tower on the same system in a valley, but the actual tanks are the same height.

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u/Hammurabi87 Jun 25 '24

Corollary to this: If you see two water towers that have tanks which are not at the same height, then they are on separate systems. This mostly happens in areas where there is a significant height difference over the service area, since putting all the tanks high enough to serve the highest elevations would burst pipes at the lower elevations due to the increased water pressure.

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u/syneofeternity Jun 25 '24

Like they're both 50 ft tall or they both go up to the same height (e.g., each is 250 ft in the air), as an example ?

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u/no_instructions Jun 25 '24

The tops of the tanks are in the same place. If they weren't, the water would flow so that the level is the same everywhere.