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Contractors Sought for Rehab of 3 MD Tanks

Wednesday, July 17, 2024


The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (Laurel, Maryland) is seeking contractors for the rehabilitation of three existing 1.25-million-gallon elevated water storage tanks in Colesville, Maryland.

The submittal date for this project is August 8.

Project Scope

According to the project specification, this project involves cleaning and recoating the interior dry, interior wet and exterior surfaces of the three 1.25-MG Hampshire Greens steel spheroid elevated water storage tanks.

Interior dry surfaces will be spot-cleaned according to Power-Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal (SSPC-SP 11) or Commercial Blast Cleaning (SSPC-SP 6/NACE No. 3) standards and spot-coated with an epoxy system.

Interior wet surfaces will be abrasive blast-cleaned to a Near White Metal finish (SSPC-SP 10/NACE No. 2) and recoated with a four-coat epoxy system.

Tank Industry Consultants

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (Laurel, Maryland) is seeking contractors for the rehabilitation of three existing 1.25-million-gallon elevated water storage tanks in Colesville, Maryland.

Exterior surfaces will be abrasive blast-cleaned to a Commercial finish (SSPC-SP 6/NACE No. 3) and recoated with an epoxy-urethane system.

The concrete foundations of the tanks will also be cleaned and coated with a concrete sealing system.

Class 2 containment according to SSPC Guide 6 is required. At least one of the three tanks is to remain in service while work is being completed.

The owner-approved coating manufacturers are Induron Coatings, Tnemec and Sherwin-Williams, or an approved equal.

A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held at the project site on July 18.

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