Jefferson water tank feed pipe

Posted by Jeff Young on May 19, 2015; 4:10pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Jefferson-water-tank-feed-pipe-tp2328.html

The Jefferson water tank was fed by a 3” galvanised iron pipe from about 1/2 mile up Jefferson creek.

I assume this pipe was normally buried, but I’m planning on showing a bit of erosion at the side of the creek with the pipe exposed.  Sound plausible?

“Galvanised iron pipe” sounds like what we’d call “gun barrel” over here.  It’s usually joined with threaded pipe fittings.  Would that also be true “back in the day”, or were they more likely joined with bolted flange joints?

(Extra credit if anyone knows of any pictures of these.)

Thanks,
Jeff.