The Klodorex Reservoir, aka Tzunki’s Bladder
Because of the position of Klodorex relative to Mountain Klodor the city slopes down gradually down from east to west. The Kahuoun’s aqueducts fed by the Heart of Tzunki on the lower mountain slopes and a wide variety of rain gutters throughout the entire city flow into the aqueducts, most of which are pointing west to the reservoir, an artificially constructed water storage unit on the edge of the city near Klodorex’s main farming fields. Officially called “the reservoir”, it’s gained the nickname “Tzunki’s Bladder”, but don’t let a Skink priest hear you calling it that!
If rainfall is insufficient for the crops, a release valve can tap the reservoir into irrigation canals. If rainfall is dangerously high and the reservoir is in danger of overflowing, a different valve can empty the Bladder down an aqueduct to send the excess water into the Llama Fields. If rain fall is ever so light that Tzunki’s Bladder is running close to empty, Kroxigor will be instructed to fill it with well water. They don’t even have to haul water down to the Tzunki’s Bladder since most of the aqueducts feed it, they just need to dump their water in the nearest aqueduct and the water will eventually flow to the right place.
Tzunki’s Bladder was built in order to service Klodorex’s crops. It used to be on the western edge of the city but Klodorex expanded outward and the Reservoir isn’t on the direct outskirts anymore. A lot more land was cultivated for farming requiring a more sophisticated and expanded irrigation system.
The reservoir also became a focal point for other buildings not associated with irrigation. Every district has its own fire control building loaded with full and/or empty water containers that can be used for bucket brigades, but the Western district has the biggest and most important fire center. Any craft that requires frequent and intense fires, especially metal forging or pottery, tends to be located near the reservoir, just in case.
Likewise after the beast caste Skinks decided to split up their charges by, they opted to move most of their Salamanders to pens near the Tzunki’s Bladder, in case of accidental fires. Originally the beast pens in the Western Quarter were intended to hold a menagerie, a couple Stegadons, a couple Salamanders, a couple Razordons and a Cold One stable. The original plan was to have all their fiercest war beasts ready to guard against an attack from the west, but the day-to-day benefits for safety and convenience of clustering all the Salamanders in one place has outweighed the potential short term tactical advantage of the original plan.
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