Old and Gray to New and Green: Coatings Transform Digesters, Tank at Water Recovery Facility

From JPCL, August 2019

By JPCL Staff

The City of Lincoln, Nebraska recently required painting services at its Theresa Street Water Resource Recovery Facility, including recoating the exteriors of three 65-foot-diameter anaerobic digesters and one 52-foot-diameter sludge storage tank. The City was looking not only to preserve these important wastewater treatment components so that they could continue to function properly for the community, but also upgrade the way they looked to passers-by. The finished product earned SSPC’s William Johnson Award for aesthetic merit in industrial or commercial coatings work, with qualities including color, gloss or texture, or the coating complimenting the environment while enhancing the structure itself....