Cisterns are buried tanks designed to hold liquids ... That, however, was blocks north of where the cistern was found. State architectural historian Michael Houser estimated the cistern likely ...

To accomplish this, we put in a rainwater cistern tank last autumn. The project continued this spring by installing two elevated watering tanks for our garden’s gravity watering system.

For days, residents of the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles believed something was amiss. At least one said there was flooding in one of the fourth-floor rooms, while others complained about ...

Several neighborhoods in the city, instead of hydrants, still have underground storage tanks for water called cisterns in place of hydrants. Captain Robert Bastis of the Fire Prevention Office for ...