View of Basham Reservoir.

ID: 416 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: 2018

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Remains of Basham Reservoir as seen from the southeast corner. Part of repair wall constructed after the 1915 collapse can be seen in the right side of the photo. The 1.6 million gallon replacement water tank seen on the left was built in 1990.

This file appears in: Portsmouth’s Basham Hill Reservoir: An Amazing (and Nearly Tragic) History

Portsmouth’s Basham Hill Reservoir: An Amazing (and Nearly Tragic) History

By Richard Duncan, PE

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the City of Portsmouth grew so to did its demand for clean and reliable drinking water. Constructed in 1913, the little-known Basham Hill…