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When the valve was opened at the tank, water flowed into an eleven and a half inch diameter iron pipe that varied in thickness from .06 inches to .31 inches depending on the pressure of the water that was flowing through it.  Water falls 1,887 feet to its lowest point in Washoe Valley.  This fall generates 819 pounds of pressure per square inch in the pipe.
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