On the west side of South Nogales Highway, just north East Hermans Road, a small, empty brick building sits in a dirt lot.
The building, which has a sign that reads "City of Tucson" above a yellowing door, is surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.
The lonely building got at least one Arizona Daily Star reader wondering just what the city did at the dusty location, which is a bit southwest of Tucson International Airport.
The building is located on a city well site, said Roberta Lopez-Suter of Tucson Water's Public Information and Conservation Office. The water department was able to find only limited information about the building, but Lopez-Suter was able to determine that it was constructed in late 1954 as a chlorine-disinfection building for a newly drilled well.
"The well was taken out of production service in 1981, and the disinfection equipment was removed soon thereafter," Lopez-Suter said.
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