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UL design takes shape on water tower 12/28/12UL design takes shape on water tower 12/28/12 The new UL-themed paint job on the water tower on Bertrand Drive, seen here Thursday, is nearly complete. By Leslie Westbrook December 27, 2012Nicholas Persac. The Advertiser, December 28, 2012 The University Crews have been working since October to paint two UL logos — one academic "There is a lot of excitement in our community for what UL athletics, and especially the football team, has accomplished," LUS Director Terry Huval said during a phone interview Thursday. "The tower is close to campus Bryan Guidry, LUS’s chief civil engineer "If the weather cooperates, we have just a couple days of work left to do before we’ll be finished," Guidry said Thursday. Lafayette Consolidated Government In return, UL will give LUS $100,000 worth of advertising and sponsorships, which will be spread across the 10 years that the logo will be displayed. The advertising and sponsorships UL will give LUS include $8,625 annually for signage at UL’s sports shop Huval said officials calculated the $100,000 figure by examining how much a comparable billboard may have cost UL. He said LUS already needed to repaint the water tower, making the cross-promotion deal a natural fit. Though officials finalized the agreement in May, Huval said LUS had to wait to begin painting the water tower because it had to be taken offline before the work could be done. Waiting until the fall to begin the work, Huval said, allowed LUS crews to take the water tower offline without affecting any customers. Water towers, which help maintain pressure levels, are more essential during the summer months, when demand is highest on the LUS system. The UL logo will not be the first LUS water tower to carry an advertisement for another entity. Huval said LUS agreed to display the Lafayette Economic Development Authority’s branding on two water towers in exchange for LEDA giving LUS land at two of its industrial parks to build water towers. Huval, whose son Andre has been the team’s standout center, said completing the water tower’s new paintings soon after the team’s big win makes the project an especially exciting point of pride. "I’d like to say we scheduled it that way but it just kind of happened," Huval said. "It’s going to look really good for a long time."
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