Doves Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.471 W 097° 07.858
14S E 672259 N 3783084
Doves are in flight on a newly-repainted fire hydrant in front of the First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore at 223 W Broadway St, Ardmore, OK.
Waymark Code: WM132AN
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2020
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Not long ago, this was a silver hydrant with an orange cap, 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.
The orange cap has been retained, although the artist painted the indentations white, maybe to illustrate the rays of the sun. The rest of the hydrant is light blue, as on a clear, sunny day, with white doves in flight and yellow and orange flowers sprouting up around the breaker ring.