![]() The Federal CD Guide Fallout Shelter Water Requirements section is downloadable here.įederal Civil Defense Guide, Part D, Chapter 2, Appendix 4, July 1965, Fallout Shelter Water Requirements. ![]() However, when the liners did leak, the steel barrels wouldn't last long before Shelters back in the 1980s with hundreds of these drums and didn't see any The plastic liner/metal water drum did hold up fairly well though. In mind that this was back before large plastic containers were in common ![]() Seem a bit complicated in today's plastic-container-filled world but keep Plastic liners inside and stood about 22 inches tall and was about 16 inches in diameter.Īctual water container and the outer liner is a backup. Water container was a steel drum (or very early issue fiberboard) that had 2 This size drum seems to be a reasonable/manageable size so I assume that's how theĥ person supply of water per drum was arrived at. Resulted from the plan of providing 1 quart of water per day per person for two weeks The Civil Defense/Red Cross book on Emergency Mass Feeding. This photo shows the standard 17.5 gallon shelter water drum from
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