The mighty Bloomfield water-tower

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The mighty Bloomfield water-tower.

Pictured is the mighty Bloomfield water-tower, and next to it a mighty cellphone-tower that was erected a few years ago.
The mighty Bloomfield water-tower seems to be the same construction as the mighty De Land water-tower, although not as high.
The mighty De Land water-tower is 100-125 feet high. The mighty Bloomfield water-tower appears to be 75-100 feet.
The towns of East and West Bloomfield, as well as the village of Bloomfield, all get their water from the Rochester water-supply, which gets its water from nearby Canadice and Hemlock Lakes, the only two Finger Lakes that remain undeveloped.
I.e. years ago, Rochester bought all the land surrounding those lakes to keep them wild.
Now Rochester, in dire financial straits, is considering selling that land.
People fear that land being sold to fat-cat developers, and those virgin lakes being sullied.
The mighty Mezz is stridently reporting this; and rightly so. A fabulous natural-resource shouldn’t just be handed over to money-grubbing REPUBLICANS.
Water is pumped east from the Rochester water-supply to East and West Bloomfield.
The water for Bloomfield village and West Bloomfield goes into various water-columns (tanks).
The mighty Bloomfield water-tower is probably the supply for the Town of East Bloomfield, although it might also partially supply Bloomfield village too.
All the water-towers (water-columns, whatever) are higher than the locations they serve, so distribution can be by gravity.
I’ve yet to see a pump-house like that massive one in Wilmington.
The water-tower was up 17 years ago when we moved to West Bloomfield, but the cell-tower wasn’t.
As you can see, there are also cell antennas on the water-tower, but the cellphone companies erected that tower in addition.
I don’t remember noticing that tower being erected, and I suppose the reason is that it is adjacent to the water-tower.
No doubt this was intentional — that water-tower would distract away from that cell-tower.
When we use our cellphones we may be talking to this tower.
There’s another tower in Honeoye Falls, but it’s farther away; although it’s not obstructed by hills. I.e. I can see it. The Bloomfield tower may be closer, but I can’t see it. So we may be talking to the Honeoye Falls tower.
The cellphone companies wanted to build another tower up-the-street, but were skonked by the local citizenry — i.e. the cell-companies couldn’t get a zoning-variance.
They even were going to hide it in a faux silo, but never in all my 63 years have I seen a farm-silo 150-feet high.
The highest silos I ever saw were about 75 feet — plus this faux silo would have been standing out in the middle of nowhere.
Probably the church-steeple up the street has cell antennas in it. It’s about 100 feet high. That steeple tilts a mite. (The church is ancient brick, and recently added a modern addition that is totally out-of-character.)

My wife’s 91-year-old mother lives “in the shadow of the mighty De Land water-tower,” a retirement complex under the water-tower in De Land, Floridy.

“The mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper where I once worked.

“East Bloomfield” and “West Bloomfield” are both towns (townships); and “Bloomfield” is a small village in the Town of East Bloomfield. We live in West Bloomfield.

RE: “I’ve yet to see a pump-house like that massive one in Wilmington.” “Wilmington” is Wilmington, Delaware, where I lived my teenage years. No doubt my brother-in-Boston will loudly excoriate me for not remembering the exact street the pump-house was on.

“Honeoye Falls” is the next major town west. “Bloomfield” is the next east. Both are small, but Honeoye Falls larger than Bloomfield.