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Berwyn - Alberta (1854-1982)
 Photo © Village of Berwyn


Water Tower's History (05-2001)
The picture of the left is a replica of the tower that came down in 1982.
The picture on the right is the original water tower.

Additional pictures / information of the demolition

- Berwyn is a village in northwestern Alberta. It is located approximately 37 km west of the Town of Peace River, 10 km southwest of the Town of Grimshaw, and 15 km northeast of the Duncan's First Nation Reserve.
Homesteaders arrived in the area around the year 1910, and in 1922 the settlement was officially named Berwyn. Named after the village of Berwyn in Denbigshire, Wales. Berwyn was later incorporated as a village in 1936.

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Berwyn Tower (1854-1982)

Built: 1954.
Decommissioned: 1979.
Torn down: 1982
Height: 22 m.
Capacity: 181,850 liters

Photo Credit: Village of Berwyn

 The water tower was purchased from Stein Structures for $4,000. The pre-cut boards and timbers used to build it were shipped into Berwyn by rail. It took six man 1 1/2 days to unload the timbers from the rail cars. The squared timbers, which made up the tower's nine legs, were so heavy that they had to be dragged from the railway cars using a tractor and chains. Wooden water towers like this one had an expected lifespan of about 20 years.
The tower was repainted and a fiberglass liner was installed in 1971.
 
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