Painting by Jan Browning
Painting by Jan Browning
Jan Browning recently submitted her second watercolor painting to us and it’s beautiful. Thanks so much Jan! We love it. You can see her first contribution here.
Posts Tagged ‘painting’
Kingdom of Rust
Posted in Jan Browning, Paintings, Uncategorized, tagged painting, photography, sudbury, sudbury star, water, watertower on April 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Water Tower Mushroom Cluster
Posted in Illustrations, Tim Richer, tagged art, clouds, colorful, colors, colourful, greenery, illustration, legs, mushrooms, painting, save, save the sudbury water towers, submission, sudbury, sudbury star, Tim Richer, tower, water, watertower on March 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Illustration by Tim Richer
Illustration by Tim Richer
Thanks to Tim for this really fun illustration. Tim’s illustration depicts water tower-like mushrooms (or mushroom-like water towers) in a nice little cluster among some rocks and greenery. In Tim’s colorful and creative illustration you can see that each mushroom has the same arrangement of “legs” as the water towers. Thanks for the really cool illustration Tim, we think it’s a lot of fun.
What kind of object or shape do you see when you look at the water towers? Let us know in the comments below.
Restoration Costs
Posted in Pete Paradis, Photographs, tagged demolition, financial, heritage, historic, historical, money, ontario, paint costs, painting, pearl street, Pete Paradis, photograph, photography, renovations, submission, sudbury, tower, water, watertower on March 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
It’s been noted in local media that the cost of repainting/restoring the water towers to their original conditions would cost upwards of $750,000 to $1.5 Million.
Photo by Pete Paradis
While we’re sure most of us think that number is exaggerated, it is hard to say by how much. Until recently, anyway. Pete Paradis of Green Sudbury has done a bit of research and has come up with some other water tower renovation budgets and price tags for renovations.
His research shows that Sudbury’s estimates for repainting could be much more than what the actual costs are likely to be.
- Studies show that a water tower in Alexandria, Ontario could have been restored for $250,000. LINK
- A water tower in Wahoo, Nebraska that was constructed in 1975 required a new protective coating and a decorative design with the Wahoo name that would serve as a source of pride for the city. Total costs of repainting and repairs to the tank interior: $96,200. LINK
- Renovations on a tower in Chillicothe, Missouri included sandblasting, priming and repainting its interior as well as cleaning and repainting the tower’s exterior. The cost of the project was $193,400. LINK
- Two water towers in Elburn, Illinois will need repainting. The costs for the repainting will be $250,000 for one and an estimated $150,000 for the other. LINK
- A 600,000 gallon water tower in Aiken, North Carolina had a renovation project (sandblasting, painting and cleaning the interior) estimated at $132,000. The Pearl Street tower in Sudbury is 1,000,000 gallons. LINK
- A water tower in Oxford, Michigan has a 500,000-gallon tower that requires either $232,000 or $347,000 in work, depending on the type of paint job. The repainting itself would cost from $65,000 or $170,000 in addition to other renovations required to keep the tower safe. LINK
- A 500,000 gallon water tower in Bethlehem, West Virginia is about to get a paint job estimated at $334,000. LINK
Pages
Subscribe to Posts
Contributing Artists
Save the Sudbury Water Towers 