Caesarea: Aqueduct
The upper aqueduct is dry today, like the surrounding sand, which the sea wind has formed into delicate waves. In King Herod’s time the aqueduct supplied drinking water to the residents of Caesarea and was a major part of the excellent water system that helped the city to prosper. The channel on top of the higher aqueduct carried water from the springs in the south of the Carmel mountain, a distance of some 12 kilometers. The gardens and fields were irrigated with water from the lower aqueduct, that brought water of a poorer quality from the dam at Nahal Tanninin (Crocodile River).
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