Is the water always up there?
How does the water get up there? I assume pumps but it all just doesn’t compute in my brain.
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For most municipal systems, they aren’t pumped up directly by pumps. There are pumps at the water plant that provide pressure to the system. That system water pressure is what determines the amount of water in the tank. The tank is just reserve water at static pressure so that when people start opening faucets there is reserve water that won’t immediately drop the pressure in the pipes. If that tank wasn’t there, whenever someone opened their faucet the immediate pressure would be very high, then drop to almost nothing because there wouldn’t be much excess water in the pipe and the pumps at the water plant would be cycling like crazy trying to maintain pressure.
Source: worked at municipal water plant.
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