Water storage returned to the site when a new covered reservoir was constructed in 1956, on the east side of the old reservoir.
The snow was hauled to an old reservoir, where a pile had already grown more than 20 feet high.
Since the old reservoirs are not completely empty, the tritium remaining in them could be recycled into new charges.
An old reservoir still exists but the pumping station was dismantled in the 1950s.
Waterflooding of old reservoirs caused a third peak of oil production in the 1950s.
But there's a regular camp by the old reservoir.
That's why the people went up to the old reservoir to camp, because the water was off.
You know up by the old reservoir, where all them campers are?
This lake, founded 1492, is the oldest reservoir of its kind in Central Europe.
To date, it is believed that some of these tanks are the oldest surviving reservoirs in the world today.