What is this thing?
I've been hiking past this concrete cistern thingy at Bluffs Park for years. Until the big fire last spring, it had been hidden by a screen of trees and weeds. Now it's right out in the open and I'm still no closer to figuring out what the heck it's for.
Educated (and silly) guesses welcome.
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