Figure 17. Close up view of quarry marks. Below the 10-cm scale stick the groove in which wood wedges soaked with water were jammed is clearly visible. Because of the fine-grained igneous texture, the basalt blocks split of smoothly, similar to a flint sliver knapped from a core. 1 November, 2016.
Figure 3. Excavation of the rubble approaching completion. 25 October 2016.
Figure 16. Reservoir R19 at end of season; final cleanup to be done in 2017. 2 November 2016.
Figure 21. The dry south west corner of Reservoir 13 with its deposit of plastic bottles on top of algae ‘rooted’ in about 3 cm of new sediment. 26 October, 2016.
Figure 15. In the final week, a new crew began the clearing of stones from the Reservoir R19 itself. 1 Nov. 2016.
Figure 9. Reservoir R7 after cleanout, with 20th century plaster intact. 27 October 2016.
Fig. 6. Supply channel created by the Masa’eid to direct the overflow from R13 to Reservoir R7. 2 Nov. 2016.
Figure 7. Reservoir R31 just after the cleanout began, 11 Oct. 2016.
Figure 13. Removal of twentieth century reservoir cleanout. 12 Oct. 2016.