Figure 45. Final days: Racing the clock and racing the rain. 9-11-2015
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 20. Stone removal part 4; this completed the clearing of sediment basin 2, 19-10-2015.
Figure 44. After overnight showers a rain-slicked floor made the work challenging. 9-11-2015.
Figure 65. Mayor Hasan Fahed standing by the erstwhile al-Rgaibeh family reservoir. 9-11-2015. See figure 1, R19.
Figure 5. Dedication of USAID funded re-plastering of the reservoir: “Inception of the repair of this reservoir was on 22 December 1954; and completion was on 28 February, 1955. The writer of the line of text was Rakan Ibn Awdah es-Serour.” 10-21-2015.
Figure 35. Attacking the middle 2: four hours later, 12:02 pm, 2-11-2015.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs of Byzantine to Modern Umm el-Jimal. R13 is the Great Roman Reservoir.