There were so few of these issued that I have never managed to locate one. The very early original issue shelter water drums were made of fiberboard similar to the sanitation kit container drums. The Federal CD Guide Fallout Shelter Water Requirements section is downloadable here.įederal Civil Defense Guide, Part D, Chapter 2, Appendix 4, July 1965, Fallout Shelter Water Requirements. However, when the liners did leak, the steel barrels wouldn't last long before Shelters back in the 1980s with hundreds of these drums and didn't see any The plastic liner/metal water drum did hold up fairly well though. In mind that this was back before large plastic containers were in common Seem a bit complicated in today's plastic-container-filled world but keep Plastic liners inside and stood about 22 inches tall and was about 16 inches in diameter.Īctual water container and the outer liner is a backup. Water container was a steel drum (or very early issue fiberboard) that had 2 ![]() This size drum seems to be a reasonable/manageable size so I assume that's how theĥ person supply of water per drum was arrived at. Resulted from the plan of providing 1 quart of water per day per person for two weeks ![]() ![]() The Civil Defense/Red Cross book on Emergency Mass Feeding. This photo shows the standard 17.5 gallon shelter water drum from
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