A unique and storied piece of Bay Area history is up for sale, the East Bay Municipal Utility District recently announced.
The Dingee Reservoir — a 1.83-acre site on the corner of Bullard Drive and Estates Drive in Oakland — is an underground, decommissioned water reservoir that will be sold as-is for a minimum of $2.5 million, the utility district said.
According to the utility district’s marketing materials, the reservoir is capable of holding 4.7 million gallons of water once it reaches capacity at its 772-foot-tall spillway and has a 10-inch valve that can be operated from the structure’s roof. Another pipe extends from this valve to a storm drain operated by the city of Oakland. However, the reservoir was drained and permanently removed from service in 2014, the utility district says — and it will not be reconnected to the agency’s water distribution system…