Cherries Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 11.872 W 097° 08.278
14S E 671565 N 3785661
A decorated hydrant stands at the southeast corner of the intersection of Robinson St NW and Cherry St NW, with an appropriate cherries theme.
Waymark Code: WM178BJ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2023
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Not long ago, this was the classic red fire hydrant and it had probably been this way since the 1990s. In 2019,
Create Ardmore and the Ardmore Fire Department worked together on a beautification effort in which fire hydrants in the downtown Cultural Arts District -- a comparatively small number compared to the over 1600 hydrants that the Ardmore FD has to maintain throughout the area! -- would be given the glamour treatment. As the Ardmore FD requires that the hydrants have a specific color cap -- red, orange, green or blue -- to indicate how much water pressure each tank has behind it, they did the priming work, leaving local volunteers to use their imaginations and minimal guidelines in the effort.
There is now an orange cap with a red operating nut, which also suggests cherries, and the nuts on the side outlet caps are also red. Note the red dots -- cherry bits? -- as well. The lower standpipe is unfinished, while the breaker ring is green. Most of the hydrant is light blue, decorated with red cherries with green stems and leaves.