Ordinary Treatment Plant Tank Becomes Focal Point of Community

A student-designed mural in Illinois on Decatur’s above-ground water reservoir becomes a point of visual interest along a busy highway.
Ordinary Treatment Plant Tank Becomes Focal Point of Community
An aerial view of the finished mural, featuring a great blue heron.

It took nearly 1,000 gallons of light beige paint to spruce up the 7.5-million-gallon reservoir at the South Water Treatment Plant in Decatur, Illinois. But it was the 40 gallons of contrasting admiral blue paint that turned the structure into an attention-getting,...

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