AWWA C215-10 Extruded Polyolefin Coatings for the Exterior of Steel Water Pipelines (PDF)

The major revisions made to the standard in this edition include the following: added future air emissions rules in the foreword; added a Type C coating system to the Scope of the standard (Sec. 1.1) and under Sec. 4.3, which included revisions to Sec. 4.3.1 and the addition of new Sec. 4.3.1.2 and Sec. 4.3.2.2 covering Type C adhesives; Section 2, 4.5, and 4.7 were revised to exclude reference to ANSI/AWWA C203, which is no longer applicable; deleted the definition of abrasive blast cleaning (Section 3); Sec. 4.3 and 4.4 were revised to include Type C coating applications; Sec. 4.4.2, Pipe Preparation, was renamed Surface Preparation and revised; addition of Table 4, Physical properties of the liquid adhesives (Primer) for Type C; addition of Table 5, Prequalification requirements of coating systems (Type A, B, and C); addition of Table 6, Quality control properties of coating systems (Type A, B, and C); added a new section (Sec. 4.4.5) on Type C coating application; revisions were made to Sec. 4.5, Coating Repair; Sec. 4.6, Field Procedures, was rewritten; the laboratory tests section under Section 5, Verification, was retitled as Sec. 5.1, Coating Materials Prequalification, and a new paragraph on prequalification of coating materials was added; added a new section on adhesion testing (Sec. 5.1.16); added a new section on cathodic disbondment qualification test (Sec. 5.1.17); the coated pipe tests section was revised and renamed to Sec. 5.4, Quality Control Requirements of Coating Systems (Type A, B, and C); and, a new section on adhesion testing was added (Sec. 5.4.4.).