the fountain was first located at the rotonda de sampaloc, the intersection between legarda, lacson and magsaysay streets which today forms the nagtahan interchange that separates sampaloc from santa mesa since don francisco carriedo y peredo reside in santa mesa, manila. the roundabout was cleared in 1976 due to traffic concerns, and the fountain was then transferred to the balara filters park, in front of the metropolitan waterworks and sewerage system (mwss) building right after they moved from their office in arroceros, manila, in the latter part of the 1970s.