Janet and/or Chris

See the earliest edition you can find of Military 
Sanitation; Department of Army Field Manual, FM 21-10.

Rick


At 10:26 AM 11/2/2007, you wrote:
>I'm forwarding this request for information from Chris Murphy, Augusta
>State University. Any thoughts would  e most appreciated.
>
>Can anyone suggest a probable function for the feature described below
>or references related to water purification in the late 19th or early
>20th century?  We have a feature which consists of three pairs of
>(roughly) 4.5 foot square brick “wells” (each about 3-3.5’ deep)
>arranged side by side in such a manner that the first pair is on a
>slope slightly elevated above the second pair which is above the third
>pair.  The total length from end to end is approximately 16.5 feet and
>a width of roughly 11.5 feet.  (We take metric measurements, but it is
>most unlikely that this feature was constructed using metric
>dimensions.)  The upper two pairs of these “wells” have iron drain
>pipes that would carry a fluid (water?) to the next pair of down slope
>“wells”.  We have yet to see any drain in the bottommost pair.  The
>“wells” have cement floors and preliminary excavations in the “wells”
>show that they have pea gravel and larger rocks resting on these
>floors.
>         This feature may have been part of a WW I training encampment (Camp
>Hancock) located here in the Augusta, GA area, but we are not certain
>that it was part of that installation because although the property
>line must have been close, we have not been able to determine if this
>structure was within or outside of the military cantonment area.  While
>the evidence so far points to this structure being related to water
>purification, it would seem to be far too small to serve any sizable
>military contingent.  Camp Hancock apparently had up to 36,000 soldiers
>during parts of the 1917-18 time frames.
>
>         Any thoughts or suggestions based on 
> this information will be welcome.
>
>Janet Jordan
>Lab Supervisor
>Archaeology Laboratory
>Augusta State University
>Augusta, Georgia