The City of Hollywood, Fla., is home to hundreds of nesting loggerhead sea turtles, and now an award-winning water tank bears the turtles’ likeness.
Protective coatings manufacturer Tnemec chose the 1-million-gallon torospherical-bottom, ovaloid-style welded steel tank as its 2011 Tank of the Year, from among more than 140 candidates.
“It is a very prestigious feeling to be recognized and singled out among the many tank coating projects,” says Taylor Calhoun, plant manager at the Hollywood Water Treatment Plant.
Calhoun and a staff of 29 run the treatment plant, which has a permitted design capacity of 60 mgd and an average daily flow of
