Mechanical Room EOC Tour Main Outside the EOC Front Entry Dormitory Communications Operations Room Radef/Operations Mayor's Office Men's Restroom Mechanical Room Air Filter System Kitchen Hallway Outside Entrance Back to Shelter Tours Main Back to Civil Defense Museum Main		Mechanical Room This photo of the room was taken looking in from the doorway. You can see the air conditioning unit to the far right in the picture. There were originally 2 electrical generators in this room. The generators were located in front of the piece of equipment in the center of the picture. You can see the air supply ducts for the generators to the left of the center piece of equipment. I'm not sure what the unit in the center of the photo is. I thought it was a air conditioning unit at first but there are no air ducts going into the unit. The entry to the Air Filtration Room is in the far wall behind the center unit. The grating in the far corner, visible between the air conditioners, is the cover for the well pit. This photo was taken during the March 2003 tour. The generator mufflers are the 2 big rusty can type things under the large air duct. You can see the generator power leads hanging from their conduits just past the air duct. I found out during the second tour that the generators were removed some time in the 1990s. The grey door to the right in the picture is one of the electrical panel doors. Another bit of new information I found out during the March 2003 tour is that the air conditioner cooled the air with well water instead of refrigerant. I assume that the generator cooling systems must have also used well water . Door Lift Hydraulic System Here is another thing I didn't take a photo of the first time through the shelter. These are the hydraulic pumps and fluid tanks for the blast door lifting cylinders. I was told by one of the Science Place employees that this system is still operational. He said he opens the outside entry blast door occasionally to air-out the shelter. Go to the Air Filter System Back to Mayor's Office Back to EOC Main