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Waterworks 1923–1925. The installation of a water system to supply the village with freshwater from Upper Lake began in 1923. In 1924, a filter and tank house were built at the lake and wood pipe laid to the village. The system distributed water by gravity flow throughout the village in 1925. In 1939, a stock fence was built around Upper Lake to keep the animals out of the village water supply (Bower 1925b, 143; Bower 1926, 143; Bower 1941, 162). 1933. A 40,000 gallon water storage tank was “built out of staves salvaged from several tanks that collapsed on St. Paul Island years ago.” The tank was installed to provide more water to the community as its needs grew beyond the gravity flow piping arrangement (Bower 1934, 294).
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