[Tagging] key covered=* applied to storage tanks

[António Madeira]

Open tanks are common in wild fires territories, like in Portugal, and 
I'm probably in Spain and Greece.
They're used by helicopters and firefighters, who depend on them in 
heavy mountainous regions, where it's impossible or very difficult to 
get water.
We're talking about water tanks of all sizes and formats, some of them 
are really huge, which are only used for fight forest fires, so it 
doesn't matter if they're contaminated.
For helicopters, they're marked with white and red stripes, so that they 
can be easily spotted from the air.
Some of them rely on rain water to be filled, but most are refilled by 
firefighters with river water or other sources.


Às 05:54 de 11/01/2023, Warin escreveu:
>
> On 10/1/23 03:49, António Madeira wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> There are closed and open storage tanks, and I think is important to 
>> differentiate them, specially those used by firefighters and rural 
>> communities to fight wild fires.
>> The approved proposal for the key covered=* states "C. denote an area 
>> such as an underground parking lot, a covered reservoir/cistern or 
>> even such things as an aquarium (e.g., Kelly Tarlton's, Auckland, 
>> NZ), when the covering is not a man-made structure that would allow 
>> layer differentiation."
>>
>> I would like to know what the community thinks about elaborate that 
>> line a bit more, to include emergency storage tanks so that people 
>> know it's ok to add covered=* to those structures.
>>
>>
>
> Storage tanks around me are all covered, at least all the one I 
> remember are. This includes ones used or emergency fire fighting. 
> Uncovered ones would be very rare in my country due to the possibility 
> of contamination by drowned animals, dirt, dust, tree leaves and tree 
> limbs. There are probably regulations about them being covered to 
> prevent the breading of mosquitos! So would think covered is part of 
> being a storage tank at least here.
>
>
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