Millard Street Water Tower Traditional Cache
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Millard Street Water Tower
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Welcome to Purpledreamers 30th Cache hide.This water Tower is both Historically and Scientifically significant to the state of Victoria.
This Water Tower and tank at 12 Millard st Wangaratta consists of a tank constructed of curved steel plates tightly rivetted together to make waterproof joints.On a Tower of eight splayed rolled steel joist legs carrying the unusual steel makers brand of "A.H.A.V. There is spiral steel access ladder.The structure which was intended to inprove reliability and pressure of the water supply,was built in 1903 to the design of Euroa engineer W C Howitt.The steel for the structure was fabricated and erected by a firm A. Challingsworth of Richmond.The original steam pump was replaced in 1930 by electric power.
The Water Tower is of Historical and scientific significance for its early (1903) use of rivetted and rolled steel in this application and effectively demonstrates the technological change from the use of wought iron or cast iron (materials of the 19th century),to steel (one of the main construction materials of the 20th century)and is one of only a handful of surviving all-water tanks and towers in Australia from this period.The steel legs of the Tower are made from a rare early brand of rolled steel.
The cache itself is a nano and should be really easy to find.There is parking just past the Tower on the road or if your lucky in the little carpark next to the Tower.
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