the Tuscaloosa Water Works tower in Bowers Park on the eastern side of the city
Bowers Park
on the eastern side of Tuscaloosa:
tennis, swimming, a water tower
the Skyland Blvd tower
the US 82 landfill tower
4th Street tower
above the Black Warrior
the prestigious
North River tower
does the mildew mark the water level inside?
You can get up close and personal with this ground-level stand-pipe. It exemplifies the Tuscaloosa tower design: "Roll Tide" writ large and plenty of mildew. (Periodically the fire department hoses the  mildew off. As any painter will tell you, there's no keeping mildew off of paint in Alabama. About elsewhere, I dunno.)

This stand pipe was constructed in 1969.
click for larger shot and another Bowers tower pic
Tuscaloosa's Western Bypass
and Fourth Bridge
across the Black Warrior River
the VerpacktesFleisch Web Ring
historical research on the
Tuscaloosa water works system

(in Adobe Acrobat format)