Construction crews digging a trench for the Broadway Bridge project last month unearthed a spring cistern surrounded by a brick and mortar foundation dating back to the 1800s. The discovery was made ...

A Topeka Fire Department cistern built in 1878 was uncovered Tuesday by workers doing excavation for an underground water line project linked to the replacement of downtown Topeka's Polk-Quincy ...

The basic idea of a cistern water system, which collects and stores water in or near a home, goes back centuries. In some parts of Western Asia, archeologists discovered lime plaster cisterns in the ...