Report from Lebanon

The Enquirer's Janice Morse reports from Warren County

It was like an 80-foot-tall "rusty blue Thermos bottle," said Lebanon City Manager Pat Clements.

He’s talking about a Monroe Road standpipe that dutifully -- but unattractively -- had stored up to 300,000 gallons of water for the city for more than 50 years.

But last week, it vanished from the Lebanon landscape.

Crews cut it down. It's vanished.

And, "from my perspective, good riddance," Clements told City Council this week.

A more voluptuous -- and voluminous -- water tower, which holds 1 million gallons of water, is taking over those responsibilities on Deerfield Road.