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 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 22. Crew members begin cleaning of sediment and algae. 26 October, 2016
Figure 19. Refilling the bulldozer gauges on the west edge of Reservoir R16. 29 October, 2016.
Figure 10. Twentieth Century surface supply channel collected runoff from open field to north of Reservoir R31. Oct 10, 2016.
Figure 12. Reservoir with rock and soil heaps; looking north. 11 Oct. 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
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.