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<blockquote data-quote="0311" data-source="post: 2399423" data-attributes="member: 26943"><p>You know, I've asked about that. All my grandparents, great grandparents etc had cisterns in Mississippi when I was a kid. What I was told is that they were dug with picks and shovels, and the dirt was hauled out with buckets. They went down about 40 feet. The circumferences varied greatly from one to the next. These things were next to the side of the houses and rain run off from the corrugated roofs filled them. It was cold, clear drinking water. You could see the old cisterns where houses had been torn down decades before, and they were still usable. But where trees had established themselves and compromised the integrity of the masonry, they were a death trap to animals that would fall into them. I've seen dead hogs floating in some. In one, out in the middle of a cotton field, there were big fish that my mom and her brother had released into it back in the 1930s. The last time I asked about the old cisterns was back when my grandparents were still alive before the internet. I'm going to surf the net and get some info in more detail on this. I have never seen one dug, and know of no one in modern times who has had one dug.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Edit/update: From what I just read, it looks like my kinfolks were digging a proper well into the water table and bricking it up, then augmenting it with rainwater. Always, they called them cisterns. But Wikipedia is strict about defining a cistern as being a container and not a well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="0311, post: 2399423, member: 26943"] You know, I've asked about that. All my grandparents, great grandparents etc had cisterns in Mississippi when I was a kid. What I was told is that they were dug with picks and shovels, and the dirt was hauled out with buckets. They went down about 40 feet. The circumferences varied greatly from one to the next. These things were next to the side of the houses and rain run off from the corrugated roofs filled them. It was cold, clear drinking water. You could see the old cisterns where houses had been torn down decades before, and they were still usable. But where trees had established themselves and compromised the integrity of the masonry, they were a death trap to animals that would fall into them. I've seen dead hogs floating in some. In one, out in the middle of a cotton field, there were big fish that my mom and her brother had released into it back in the 1930s. The last time I asked about the old cisterns was back when my grandparents were still alive before the internet. I'm going to surf the net and get some info in more detail on this. I have never seen one dug, and know of no one in modern times who has had one dug. Edit/update: From what I just read, it looks like my kinfolks were digging a proper well into the water table and bricking it up, then augmenting it with rainwater. Always, they called them cisterns. But Wikipedia is strict about defining a cistern as being a container and not a well. [/QUOTE]
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