This from a government surplus sales site -

NEW MEXICO

Bernalillo

Two elevated water tanks, one 250,000 gallons, the other 500,000 gallons. For off-site removal, no land included. Kirtland Air Force base. Sealed bid. Call sales office for more information. Linda Perry (817) 978-4246 or e-mail: linda.perry@gsa.gov.

-- Evil Roy (EvilRoy@NoSpam.com), May 25, 1999

Answers

Sounds great! How many bottles of Clorox should I buy for the 500,000 gallon model ;-)

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), May 26, 1999.

Those tanks slowly moving down the interstate would be something to see! They'll have to be disassembled for shipment and rebuilt in the new location. Not necessarily cost-effective.

BTW the Cape Hatteras lighthouse is approaching its new site. They've been moving it for some weeks now. Carefully.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), May 26, 1999.

Have little water storage problems?

www.watertanks.com

Have slightly larger water storage problems? 8<)

www.watertank.com

Boy - don't you know those other guys are more than fed up with y2K questions!!!!!!!

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), May 26, 1999.

I live in southern New Mexico, where we have received less than an inch of rain so far this year. The ranchers and farmers down here could certainly use those tanks--filled, of course! The drought is driving even the mountain lions close to town. But down in Mexico is where the real catastrophe is occurring--the worst drought in that country's history, especially in the northern states. Five of those states have already been declared disaster areas, though the Mexican govt. hasn't the money to do much, of course. Mexican farmers and ranchers are defaulting big time (the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars U.S.) on their bank loans, putting enormous stress on the Mexican banking system, which was already shaky.

-- Don Florence (dflorence@zianet.com), May 26, 1999.