#82319: Camp Ibis

Camp Ibis

A 500,000-gallon reservoir at Camp Ibis is a solid concrete oval shaped basin
approximately the size of a football field. The walls slope to the bottom of the
reservoir. When full, the reservoir may have been 30-40 feet deep. The bottom
of the reservoir has an estimated three-foot wide by 15-foot-long trench that
housed pumps that siphoned water from the desert aquifer. It is not known how
deep the wells were drilled to reach the aquifer. A lone mesquite tree is seen at
the left of the photo

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