“The pipes were sweating so much they looked like they had just finished running a race.”
That’s how David Van Zee, co-owner of Carolina Management Team (CMT), described the steel pipes serving the filter pipe gallery at the Kerr Lake Regional Water Treatment Plant in Henderson, North Carolina.
Located inside a temperature-controlled building, the pipes sweat nearly continuously as cool water pulled from the John H. Kerr Reservoir (Kerr Lake) runs through the plant. The warm environment is ripe for condensation on the pipes and surrounding equipment. The condensation was an obstacle Van Zee and his infrastructure rehabilitation team had to
