The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 119
ar as possible this was kept wet afterbeing applied. There was, however, some difficulty owing to a shortage inthe water supply and also to the high winds that prevailed the greater partof the time, which had a tendency to dry out the Gunite very rapidly. Three thousand two hundred square yards… … Cement Gun at Work on Twin Peaks Reserzoir pumped into one-half of the reservoir by the auxiliary pumping station atSecond and Townsend Streets, at the rate of 2,000 gallons per minute until itwas filled to a depth of 25 feet 6 inches. At the end of twenty-four hours, aslight seepage of moisture…
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