Piece by piece, old tank moves to Homer

 Two Homer builders salvaged redwood planks and beams from the mothballed Young Road water tank early this week.

The wood-stave structure, built in the late 1970s, had been leaking for years and became too small to provide adequate pressure and volume for the growing, hillside neighborhood.

Jeff Dean bid $1,247 for the salvage rights, topping five other bidders. He brought a flatbed trailer to town this week, along with helper Michael Olare. They pulled off…