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The reservoir is built into a hill with a curved wall to make a cup. This position must have been purposeful. The reservoir was close to the entrance of the island, as well as at the bottom of the hill. In the spring it might have collected runoff from the melting snow. The location was also far enough from the ocean that it was safe from flooding and saltwater contamination.

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In the quarry, much of the machinery required water for cooling. The water could not be salt water, due to the corrosion of the metal. So reservoirs were required for granite quarrying.  Because this reservoir walls were built with rounder, not machine mined rock, we think that it was built before the machines were assembled. The second, later reservoir, which is square and geometric, was built after, when the machinery was working.

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The map is of hurricane island when it was still an active quarry town. All over the island wells had been dug much closer to houses. This reservoir, once the town was established, was probably not used for drinking water for humans. It might have been used for machinery or live stock. Surface water is much more vulnerable to contaminants such as weather and animal matter, and therefore needs a lot of treatment. Well water is safer, although mining can make it contaminated with minerals.

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Large amounts of water needed to cool machinery. Was the water from this reservoir used for that and if so and how was this water consistently available and transported?

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How did the season impact the water? Did it freeze in the winter?

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Was the location of water-necessary amenities placed around the reservoir or was the reservoir created after in a convent location to these amenities? What was the water in this reservoir used for? drinking? livestock? machinery?

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What materials were chosen and why?

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When was this reservoir empty? how did the loss of people on hurricane island in 1910 affect the water levels?

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What types of nature were able to thrive here because of the water? How has the lack of water affected them? How did the creation of water affect the preexisting life? In what ways did society change with the environment/flora/fauna?

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How did the water get to the reservoir? Was there any man-made intervention in building the reservoir?