3rd Largest Water Tanks in the World

You read that title right. The third largest in the world. 32,000,000 gallons each! Here's the first one that will go online in late fall.

 

Here's the second one under construction. over 1,000,000 square feet of space, all concrete under compression, solar panels are going on the roof to power all the electrical needs of the system.

We had a unprecendented opportunity for a tour. This is the only time the public will see this. Our tour guide was the Water Commissioner himself! We walked up into the old resevoir which they had to drain and dig a road through. Then we stopped at several points along the way to see the process and the method to put it all together.

Here's the newspaper article: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/huge_tanks_at_westcott_reservo.html

Syracusian Evening

We joined Syracuse Photographers for a Meetup and wandered around downtown one evening. We wandered from the Delavan center through Armory Square, over to Columbus Circle and back to the Armory Square area.

 

Pretty cool old gate at Armory Square. This made some great portraits of the girls. 

This is the top of the courthouse. The copper roof is already developing a patina. They just put the roof on a few months ago. We topped off the night with coffee from Starbucks and an ice cream cone from our little ice cream shop near home.