Nesbit Park Water Tower - Bartlett, TN - Water Towers on Waymarking.com

More about the water tower from a 2016 article: "...Bartlett is considering putting a new water tower in Nesbit Park — quickly drawing protests from hikers, bikers and other users of the suburb's largest park on the city's western border.

Evidence of the city's intentions emerged recently with survey markers in the park north of Yale and west of Billy Maher. The 333-acre park is destined to remain a natural area.

And several people at the Bartlett Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting Tuesday night expressed their concerns that the potential water tower in the park's southwest quadrant would endanger the character.

"We're really concerned about that because that park is really meant to be a natural area," Pam Irving told aldermen. "It wasn't meant to be something with a water tower or anything like that on it."

City officials emphasized the tower location — needed to help water pressure in the area — is in the preliminary stage in hopes to finding the most economical spot based on the height of the tower and its proximity to larger, high-volume pipelines to carry water. City Engineer Rick McClanahan took the blame for the lack of notification, saying officials wanted more information about the site before discussing it.

"I'm not necessarily against moving it," McClanahan told several citizens after the meeting, "but it will cost more."

Asked if location of the tower in Nesbit Park is a done deal, Mayor Keith McDonald quickly said: "No," while also adding other locations are more costly.

"We are looking for the best and least expensive place to put it," the mayor said.

McClanahan said the structure would be about 100 feet tall including a tank at the top designed to hold between 500,000 and 750,000 gallons of water. Most of the city's water tanks are comparable size, except for the old 50,000-gallon tank south of Bartlett High.

Nesbit Park with its hiking and biking trails was once the farm of Katherine Nesbit, who donated the land to the old Shelby County Conservation Board — which once acted as the county's parks board. When the property was annexed by Bartlett, the land was transferred to the suburb..." (visit link)

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