Tallah tank | 100 years of snag-free service

Tallah tank , Asia's largest elevated water reservoir turns 100 on November 18, 2009 with a rare record of snag-free service to the city Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ) without a single shutdown in all these years over 100 years. Built by the British, the foundation of Tallah was laid on November 18, 1909, by Sir Edward Baker, the then lieutenant governor of undivided Bengal.
Clayton Son & Company of Leeds, England, built the project and all the materials ,including anticorrosion plates were shipped to Calcutta from England.
The tank retains over nine-million-gallon of water, if were to store aviation fuel in its belly, it would be sufficient to fuel 158 jumbo jets.