LOCK GATES DELEADED, REPAINTED UNDER TIGHT SCHEDULE, HUMID CONDITIONS

A humid environment, compressed schedule, and unexpected need for full-scale lead abatement operations tested the skills of a painting contractor during a project to prepare and recoat the lower sector gates of the Ortona Lock on Florida's Okeechobee Inland Waterway. During a 56-day shutdown, the lock was dewatered, a containment was constructed, and the structure was deleaded. The contractor had the job of removing existing lead-based coatings from the lower sector gates of the lock, recoating with a vinyl system, and abrasive blasting and resurfacing the sidewalls of the lock with concrete. Two lift gates and two tainter gates in the spillway also required surface preparation and recoating under the contract. These gates were handled separately from the sector gates and sidewalls.

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  Technology Publishing Company

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• Publication Date: 2000-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 67-72
• Serial:
  • Journal of Protective Coatings & Linings
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Steel Structures Painting Council
  • ISSN: 8755-1985

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Blast cleaning; Coatings; Concrete; Dewatering; Humidity control; Inland waterways; Lead based paint; Lock gates; Locks (Waterways); Maintenance; Paint removal; Resurfacing; Vinyl resins
• Geographic Terms: Florida; Lake Okeechobee; Ortona Lock
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Marine Transportation; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00793973
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 10 2000 12:00AM