Historic water tower begins journey to new home along Delta

From the Sacramento Bee:

For all of Dick Brann’s life, the water tower has been perched along the banks of the Sacramento River. The 132-feet-tall tower has been as much a part of the river town’s identity as striped bass or the nearby lift bridge. When you saw the tower from boat or car – and you could for miles away in the flat-as-a-pool-table Delta – you knew Rio Vista was near. “It’s a landmark,” he said.

Brann never saw the water tower being built even though he grew up here. After all, he’s only 92. The water tower is more than a century old.

The bottom tank of the two-tank tower supplied water for drinking, and the top one fed a flume that transported asparagus into a cannery.

Read more from the Sacramento Bee by clicking here.

From Stockton’s Record:

It will be refurbished, painted, loaded on a barge and shipped across the river to the site of a new Delta visitor center that one organizer said is expected to break ground within a month. The goal of the center: to give the often-overlooked Delta a new identity.

Dozens of witnesses, including some from Lodi and Stockton, watched as workers atop the 132-foot-high tower prepared the 50,000-gallon upper tank for removal. Sparks rained down from the platform.

“The Delta has been part of my life for 60 years now, and I hate to see it go down the tubes,” said Stockton fisherman Jay Sorensen. “This landmark is going to raise the profile of the Delta.”

Read more from the Record (which includes a slideshow of pictures) by clicking here.

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