Figure 62. The crew. Ali Aqil, standing far right, was the group’s foreman whose work strategy enabled the completion of the reservoir reconditioning in four weeks. Photo by visitor, 7-11-2015.
Figure 25. Stone up 3. 24-10-2015.
Figure 45. Final days: Racing the clock and racing the rain. 9-11-2015
Figure 65. Mayor Hasan Fahed standing by the erstwhile al-Rgaibeh family reservoir. 9-11-2015. See figure 1, R19.
Figure 49. Soil is gone! 14-11-2015. Photo by Muaffaq Hazza.
Figure 3. North side and NW corner of reservoir in 1905 photograph. The “draughted masonry” is exposed where the ancient coat of thick plaster (called opus signinum by Butler) has fallen off. The “coping of flat and well fitted slabs” is visible on top of the wall in the segment on the right.
Figure 40. Pumping the puddles; the main challenge is to keep the water away from the soil. Shown here is a small pump provided by Mayor Hassan Fahed and his municipal staff. 7-11-2015.
Figure 60. Sediment from reservoir supplies municipal street side landscaping soil. 8-11-2015
