Coppell's First Water Supply - Coppell, TX
N 32° 57.302 W 097° 00.371
14S E 686364 N 3648065
A sign placed by the Coppell Historical Society stands at the sidewalk at 454 W Bethel Rd, providing some information about the city's first water supply, the tank that you see in front of you.
Waymark Code: WM16E4F
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/11/2022
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The water tower stands between 20 and 30 feet high, in very good condition. It's painted a cream color, and as the sign mentions, the city logo was painted on the front in anticipation of the town's centennial. "Coppell" is in red, white, and blue, with a catchy blue star and red stripes above a blue "America", and "1890-1990" in red below.
The sign provides some background:
The City of Coppell constructed this water tank in the late 1960s to accommodate a rapidly expanding population. Automatic pumps supplied water to those residents who chose to pay for city water, but the controls often malfunctioned and had to be operated manually day and night until repairs could be made. The city logo was painted by the Exchange Club when Coppell was preparing to celebrate its centennial.
The original water well beneath this tank was first tapped about 1911 to supply an overhead wooden tank and a public watering trough for horses, funded by Dallas County and local residents. In the decade of the 1940s, a washeteria, located just behind this marker, allowed residents to wash clothes in wringer washing machines and the waste water ran out into the creek behind.
The Coppell Historical Society
2016
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