Water tower @ Agnews Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Nomex: Archiving since it appears that the cache is no longer in play and the placement does not have adequate permission from the Land Manager.

If the Cache Owner would like to contact me regarding permission, and/or relocation of the cache, please feel free to do so.

Thanks for your cooperation,
Nomex
Northern California Volunteer Reviewer

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Hidden : 4/22/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This small cache is located quite near to the old Agnews water tower, in a natural location.

Living out here for a while I got quite curious to what this water tower was doing here, in this high tech environment. Getting over to it and doing some research, I learned that this belongs to the - in the meantime retired - Agnews Development Complex.

Some over a 120 years ago when this was still an area surrounded by orchards and farms Agnews was founded. It was a housing complex for the physical and mentally unfortunate under us. This was for them a resort to get help and live their live to best efforts. Initially the - Spanish style build - houses where build with their own water supply on the top floor. This not being to successful, in 1908 (as I could read from the records) the initiative was taken to build a separate central steel water tower. This water tower was the new more convenient source for all the houses. Over time when our current central water supply had developed, there was no need anymore for this tower. It then retired from its water-supply-duty, but was not done yet.

Currently it is serving as housing for PG&E's electrical equipment. In the occasion that PG&E is performing maintenance, you might peek in and see the big pipes for the water, still being in place. Don't ever try to enter. That's forbidden and might be pretty shocking ;-)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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