HOW THE ROMANS BROUGHT WATER TO THE DESERT. Lee Bryant sent me this article about German excavations of a 66 mile aqueduct built by the Romans to bring water to the province of “Syria” (located in present-day Jordan). Roman aqueducts, like Roman roads, were amazing feats of construction. Roman engineers invented and used standardized lead pipes. The aqueduct was constructed over a period of 120 years–probably by Roman soldiers–to bring water to Gadara, a city of about 50,000 people. Over 100 kilometers of the pipeline is under ground. There is still a mystery about how the Romans were able to maintain a uniform gradient of 30 centimeters per kilometer for over 60 kilometers.
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My grandfather, Agostino Vetrone, was a stone mason. When he first came to the United States, he laid brick for the brick roads of Syracuse, New York. When brick was replaced, the City of Syracuse had a civil servant with out of date skills. They put him on a garbage truck. And he went! However, behind his house, 1200 Lodi, he built a brick road that leads to nowhere.
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