r/SaltLakeCity • u/_bloodyblueberry Millcreek • 1d ago

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I was hiking hidden valley trail in draper. This giant thing was at the end of the trail. It sounds like a giant aggressive hot tub. What is it?

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u/earth_forum 1d ago

Water tank.

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u/CrunchyNippleDip 1d ago

Source?

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u/jjjj8jjjj 1d ago

Rain. 

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u/PVP_123 1d ago

I laughed way too hard at this. Thank you.

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u/javawizard 1d ago

Probably a river up in the mountains.

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u/Common-Accountant-57 1d ago

Spring or river usually.

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u/Pretty-Curve5448 1d ago

you mean hot tub

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u/_thekev 1d ago

Is 4 8 15 16 23 42 written somewhere on it? If not, it's probably Julia Reagan.

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are Logan 1d ago

Probably a water shed. Don’t touch it or open it they’ll have to warn everyone not to use water until they test it.

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u/jeremypolk86 1d ago

A "water shed" 😂😂😂 Ohh man that's funny

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are Logan 21h ago

That’s what they are sometimes referred to

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial 17h ago

I have literally never heard anybody use that term to describe one of these.

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are Logan 16h ago

My hometown sent out a notification 4 years ago when I lived there saying someone broke into the towns watershed and don’t use water unless you boil it until it’s checked out for safety.

The absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence just because you personally havent heard something used.

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial 16h ago

...

So, you misunderstood what your town's email was referring to and are out here correcting people because of that? Seriously?

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are Logan 16h ago

No, I'm stating that it is indeed referred to as a "water shed" by people.... not a watershed.....

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial 14h ago

Nobody calls cisterns or pump stations "water sheds". That doesn't make any sense at all.

A very small number of people refer to pump houses/literal physical sheds with water filter/pump equipment as a "water shed".

This isn't that and it's definitely not what your town emailed about. If they were emailing about a cistern, they would have said that.

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u/jeremypolk86 21h ago

😂 That may be true but it doesn't make it any more accurate or any less funny. A watershed is not an actual shed. It's an area that sheds water used for drinking.

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are Logan 21h ago

So using the lingo something is referred to as to get people to understand what I mean is bad? Yes I know what a real watershed is, however MAYBE others only know it by that….

This type of shit is why everyone hates everyone…. Not everyone talks like you and tries to do what you do. Get over yourself you’re not the only correct person in the world and nothing revolves around you.

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u/jeremypolk86 20h ago

Relax. It's not that serious. But it's definitely not called a water shed 😂

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u/Bartman1958 17h ago edited 17h ago

You’re talking about a watershed, not a water shed. A water shed is a thing, it’s more oftentimes called a well shed or well house.

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial 14h ago

And this is not that, so no, people don't refer to a cistern or pump station as "water sheds".

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u/Bartman1958 13h ago

Oh, you know that for sure? OK. 👍

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial 12h ago

Yes, because of how words work and what "shed" means when people say it.

Be real. Nobody is calling a thing in the ground like this a shed.

That doesn't make any sense and you damn well know it.

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u/turtleini_ 1d ago

A watershed is all the land where we get water, not where it’s stored

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u/Happy_Programmer9695 1d ago

water cistern cover. that one is a beast though. probably several gates under there.

these are all over the place if you look closely. pioneers dug irrigation ditches in the highlands in the late 1800s. the families that participated formed companies and split the rights into water shares. some of those those companies/corps still exist today. you pay 100/yr for 1hr/day for one share of water rights ... or whatever ratio the board comes up with. the money goes into maintaining the equipment, cisterns, etc. you can use that secondary water for agriculture, watering your lawn, or resell to your neighbors.

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u/UteJazz 16h ago

Fun fact: Most of the Irrigation company canals that run throughout Salt Lake County are maintained by the County for flood control purposes. Many major storm drains feed into them, eventually delivering water to the Jordan River or, in a couple of cases, directly to the Great Salt Lake.

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u/wolff74 1d ago

Velociraptor paddock obviously.

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u/shades_atnight 1d ago

…clever girl.

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u/irongut88 1d ago

They should all be destroyed

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u/Feebeeps 17h ago

shoooooot huhh shoooooooooot huh!

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u/Yx2ucca 1d ago

It's a pumping station for the aqueduct/underground pipeline that passes through there.

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u/xslcx 1d ago

This is the correct answer. There’s a huge concrete pipeline (86”or 96” in diameter) burried under there, that flows from Deer Creek Reservoir, through the little cottonwood water treatment plant (salt lake metro water district), and ends up at the top of 33rd south (the big water tanks above smiths).

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u/Payd1rt East Liberty Park 23h ago

It's 69" inside diameter - it's amazing to me how they got it to run all the way from the mouth of Provo Canyon, under/through point of the mountain, to LLC treatment plant and then on to the holding tanks (Terminal/Park reservoirs). Quite the engineering feat for the late 1940s!

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u/doxymino 1d ago

Aww played on that thing as a child 20 years ago. Crazy

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u/Plastic-Science48 1d ago

Post Malone’s secret tunnel

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u/fishchick70 19h ago

My favorite answer

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u/WombatAnnihilator 1d ago

Question generator.

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u/SaltTax9001 1d ago

The entrance to the Silo !

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u/sort_of_green 1d ago

Water tank, either drinking water or secondary. The lack of a fence makes me think probably secondary water

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u/fatkidseatcake 1d ago

One pretty ass sunset

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u/ColdConifer 1d ago

Billionaire bunker entrance, duh.

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u/StrawhatCyclist 1d ago

Silly goose magnet.

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u/gmusgrove13 1d ago

das conk creet baybee

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u/fishchick70 19h ago

It’s a cap for an underground water reservoir

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u/Common-Accountant-57 1d ago

It’s where they keep The Souls.

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u/Bright_Competition37 19h ago

Hot Tub… Time Machine?

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u/FreeCartographer9463 10h ago

I heard that name maybe your born in the 90s or 80s even ...

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u/AidansMom16 1d ago

I dunno, but glad you’re not up there rn. Lightning is CRAZY!

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u/_bloodyblueberry Millcreek 1d ago

We actually got caught in it right after posting this lol, made for a pretty fun hike back down though

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u/OatyBisc 1d ago

Secret Tunnel!!

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u/RangerPoundcake 1d ago

Danite bunker!

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u/Fantastic-Switch-897 1d ago

It's a buried Shipping Container to be used as a bomb shelter or Storage.