SCS was contacted to make an assessment of a dolphin and whale pool at a marine research facility that was losing water. The pool had developed serious cracks in the marcite pool surface layer during the construction phase of a neighboring sea turtle building. It was determined that the concrete substrate in and around the pool required extensive repairs and a coating that would prevent the loss of water, retain colorstability and perform long term for the life cycle of the pool. SCS performed the work over the course of several weeks.

Surface preparation was performed with wet abrasive blasting of all pool surfaces and removing the remaining contaminants and residual materials. All surfaces where dechlorinated for the removal of soluble salts. All visual crack repairs to the pool surfaces were performed. Areas where the concrete had spalled were replaced and contoured with polymer concrete. Once all the pool surfaces were repaired, a prime coating was applied to seal all the surfaces. A 100% solids, VOC = O coating was applied to all the internal pool surfaces.