Figure 20. Reservoir 13 with water remaining to an average depth of one meter. In the foreground one can see the shelf of exposed bedrock floor and the algae bloom in the shallower water. 26 October 2016.
Figure 13. Removal of twentieth century reservoir cleanout. 12 Oct. 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 5. The energetic crew that completed the R7 excavation. 20 Oct 2017.
Figure 11. Reservoir R19 with soil heaps; looking to southwest. 11 Oct 2016.
Figure 8. Crew removing building blocks from Reservoir R31. 20 October 2016.
Figure 2. Reservoir R7 in courtyard of House 52 before work began. 10 Oct 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 16. Reservoir R19 at end of season; final cleanup to be done in 2017. 2 November 2016.