![whatever floats your boat whatever floats your boat](moreboats2.jpg) More boats, more tanks...(NSF) |
![sign here for this tank sign here for this tank](christening2.jpg) ...until the last tank got some special attention (I). |
![you're the last one your're the last one](lastone2.jpg) Here it goes! (I). |
![done done done done](completion2.jpg) The last tank was set at 2110 on 7 January 1999 (I). |
![flex your joints flex your joints](piping2.jpg) Still a lot of work to do...like all of the interconnecting piping...(I) |
![top off top off](vents2.jpg) ...vents and drains...(I) |
![walk this way walk this way](platforms2.jpg) ...and the walkways between each pair of tanks. (I) |
![oof oof](wall2.jpg) All that is left is a new upwind bulkhead (I). |
![ready for a dip ready for a dip](rowa2.jpg) The newly completed and inspected set of tanks, as seen from the roof of the pumphouse (C). |
![pressure points pressure points](inside2.jpg) Some of the piping inside the pumphouse. Everything was on line by the end of the summer (I). |
![the other door the other door](backdoor2.jpg)
A new emergency exit with a spiral stair was added on the upwind end of the fuel arch. By 2005 it was getting buried (2005). |
![round about round about](top2.jpg) Just inside the door, here is the top landing of the spiral stair (2005). |
![up and away up and away](bottom2.jpg) Here's the view from the bottom of the stairs (I). |
![tank you tank you](backrow2.jpg) A more recent look at the markings and signatures on the last row of tanks (2005). |
![UBF UBF](path2.jpg)
Here's the walkway along the side of the arch (2005). |
![a moment in the sun a moment in the sun](pumphouse2.jpg) Here's the fuel arch pumphouse. Normally this structure is rather hard to photograph, but this unique view was taken in 2005-06 when the downwind bulkhead was being replaced as part of the biomed arch raising project (JM). |
![turn me off turn me off](switches2.jpg)
A closeup view of the northwest end of the pumphouse, with the first tank in the background (2008). |
![mind the gap mind the gap](suction2.jpg)
Looking southeast along the upwind side of the pumphouse. These two sides of the pumphouse are due to be "pushed out" to expand the building interior during the 2008-09 summer (2008).
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Photo credits--NSF, credited thus; RW, Robert Williscroft; RS, Robert Schwarz; CR, Chris Rock; C, Carlton Walker; I, found on the common drive/photographer unknown; JM, Jerry Marty; JMcD, Jason McDonald. Other dated photos are mine.
So what was going on at the other end of the arches?
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