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comrade1234 parent
No mention of the freshwater source... line from the shore? Shipped in?

The listing says it has "a 250,000 litre rain harvest system and storage with a reverse osmosis system providing potable water".
OJFord
Shipped in surely, everything else would need to be anyway. The flushing toilets etc. mentioned as a challenge probably use a rainwater collection system or perhaps seawater (I'm not sure if the latter's done, desalination probably necessary?).
bombcar
You can run toilets on seawater just fine, maybe some slightly different seals.
OJFord
It was corrosion to pipes I was thinking of. Though perhaps if nothing existed already they'd have been allowed to use plastic pipework (highly doubt they'd get listed building consent for replacing existing with plastic).
mhandley
The listing mentions a 30,000 gallon reservior, so I imagine rainwater collecion from the "parade ground".
defrost
That'd be my guess also: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300017169-thorne-island...

The British Listed Buildings site has photos of the fort and boat approach with stairs, picking crane, and sloped ladder lift for getting loads from water to gate.

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