Sherwin-Williams Unveils Winners of 2021 Water and Wastewater Impact Award
CLEVELAND – Sherwin-Williams announced that a project team braving tight quarters, steep vertical drops and an aggressive coatings schedule to reline an 8- to 9.5-foot-diameter, 1.3-mile-long penstock for the Devil Canyon Powerplant in San Bernardino, California, has earned top honors in the 2021 Sherwin-Williams Impact Award program. The Impact Award recognizes exceptional projects that feature high-performance coating and lining materials from Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine. The challenging, multi-year project involved blasting and relining the penstock’s entire interior while navigating grades of nearly 75% in spots, figuring out how to manage equipment access via 30-inch wide entry points located 1,000 feet apart and maintaining warmth inside the pipeline when outside temperatures were near freezing and winds occasionally reached 70 mph. The winning team includes the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and industrial services firm Unified Field Services Corporation.
The runner-up project for the 2021 awards realized major savings in the restoration of five surface water storage tanks for the City of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The project team of Holyoke Water Works, applicator Champion Painting Specialty Services Corp. and engineering firm Tighe & Bond worked with Sherwin-Williams to save more than half of the initial anticipated $2.2 million cost of restoring the tanks. The resulting $1.2 million savings was made possible by reassessing the tank’s conditions and opting for an overcoat system on four of the tanks instead of setting up full containment systems for each tank and dry blasting their surfaces down to bare metal. Only one tank required the full restoration treatment, saving the city budget dollars and enabling the restorations to take place over two years.