What is height of water towers?

[gwahazar]

How high are water towers? I can't find relevant information and I'm not sure, if my buildings will get enough pressure (some are on slope).
IF tower height affect pressure similar to source height, maybe it should be documented?

[Silent_Shadow]

Soon.

[moa]

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[gwahazar]

So you just check how height need to be a source to fill water tower? Nice idea, thanks.

[moa]

Yes, that's what I did almost 2 years ago. For the last piece of the puzzle one needs to know how much elevation change is required to fill a pipe (any) to its capacity. For that I used the water substation connected to the underground tank. It is about 100m to get the maximum pressure.

So to memories all this:
- 100m to fill a pipe
- underground tank about 0/3rd of 100m
- small tower about 1/3rd of 100m
- large tower about 2/3rd of 100m

and pipe ratings:
- small pipe about 1 bar / 25m³
- medium is equal to 2x small
- large is equal to 5x small

Big treatment plant is a bit tricky as its output tank is really tall (way way more then 100m). In other words if the output tank is full then you need 6-10m elevation change to see it trickling water and if it is almost empty then a lot lot more.

However one can get the full 200m³ per day out of it with way less delta and no pumps:
- Connect the 3 output pipes to 3 switches about 60m below the treatment plant
- each of those 3 switches go to another 3 switches (also more than 60m below).
- Connect those last 9 switches to 9 underground reservoirs with 2 pipes each (60m below treatment plant)

Those reservoirs then can handle 25 m³ each or if both outputs of them are used then 18 settlements with 625 people each (12.5m³).

One could double the reservoirs and half the delta or vise versa, but I find 60 meters acceptable and the added storage is adequate in case the treatment plant needs to be relocated further uphill or to upgrade pipes / add a second treatment plant et cetera.