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Hi. The cistern on the back porch of the Moser House (1880s-1920)
(3BE311 in NW Arkansas) had a sand filter on one side at the
mouth. The overall shape was a keyhole with the round mouth of the
cistern being the "barrel" of the key and the filter box the
"tang". The filter box was 2 bricks thick on the sides, one brick
wythe thick on the base, full of sand, and connected to the cistern
mouth by a brick tunnel covered with window screen. The cistern and
filter box were covered by a wooden box of course. An informant said
the drainpipe off the roof fed directly into this filter box. See
http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/atumoser.html Fig.6 for
Fea 4. Or buy the Moser report, 1986, Arkansas Archeological Survey
Research Series No. 26, via the same web site. Nahhh, just visit the web site.
At 11:45 PM 4/8/2008, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Has anyone encountered red brick filters inside of water cisterns?
>
>In the cistern I have been studying, slightly off center on the
>floor is a solid block of cemented bricks. It measures
>approximately 49" high, and 2 bricks wide, and 3 1/2 bricks
>long. One brick width protrudes down the sides of the
>construction. On the top is a place built up of 1 brick wide into
>which the original ferrous pipe was inserted. There is no evidence
>of any opening anywhere.
>
>Thanks,
>S. Walter
Leslie C. "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy, Ph.D.
Arkansas Archeological Survey
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Petit Jean Mountain
1 Rockefeller Drive
Morrilton, AR 72110
501 727-6250
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