Atkinson, Washington, Zachry submits lowest bid on MWD reservoir contract.joint venture of Atkinson, Washington and Zachry was the apparent low bidder Wednesday for a $384 million contract with the Metropolitan Water District to build two of the three dams that will form Southern California's largest reservoir. The bid to build the dams for MWD's Eastside Reservoir Project near Hemet in Riverside County would be the single largest construction contract in the water agency's 67-year history. Metropolitan's board of directors is expected to act on the contract award at its Dec. 12 meeting. The low bid of $384,150,000 was followed by submittals from a joint venture between Kiewit Pacific and Granite of Vancouver, Wash., at $395,566,960, and a Sylmar-based joint venture of Tutor-Saliba Corp., Perini Corp., Buckley & Co., and O&G Industries, at $437,259,350. "The closeness of today's bids demonstrates that there is stiff competition out there for work like this," said Dennis Majors, MWD's manager of the Eastside Reservoir Project. Metropolitan's engineering estimate on the contract was $476 million. Following Wednesday's process, the apparent low bid will be reviewed for adequacy over the next few days to ensure that it meets district specifications before being submitted to Metropolitan's board. The contract calls for the construction of the reservoir's west and saddle dams, the channel leading to the inlet/outlet tower at the 260-billion-gallon lake, as well as the excavation excavation In archaeology, the exposure, recording, and recovery of buried material remains. The techniques employed vary by the type of site, but all forms of archaeological excavation require great skill and careful preparation. for the project's forebay. As designed, the west dam will be 1.7 miles long, 285 feet high, 1,200 feet wide at its base and 40 feet wide at its crest. Embankment fills for the west dam will hold about 60 million cubic yards of earth and rock. The smaller saddle dam, which will fill a low spot on the northern rim of the reservoir, will hold 2.6 million cubic yards of fill materials. Expected to begin in February 1996, construction of the west and saddle dams will take about 3 years to complete. The project's third dam on the east end, which will go out for bid in the spring of 1996, will be 2 miles long, 185 feet high, 800 feet at the base and 40 feet at the crest. Combined, the dam project will be constructed with more than 100 million cubic yards of earth and rock. If approved by the MWD MWD Metropolitan Water District of Southern California MWD Measurement While Drilling (oil drilling) MWD Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (stock symbol) MWD Molecular Weight Distribution MWD Military Working Dog board, the contract will mark the first time the three primary firms included in the low bid will work together on a major project. The Metropolitan Water District is a regional water agency that imports water from Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern and the Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. , and delivers it on a wholesale basis to the coastal plain of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Through its 27 member public agencies, the district provides almost 60 percent of the water used by nearly 16 million people living in portions of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. , San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and Ventura counties. CONTACT: Metropolitan Water District, Los Angeles Bob Gomperz, 213/217-6866 (office), 818/797-5478 (home) Bob Muir, 213/217-6930 (office), 714/879-7478 (home) Rob Hallwachs, 213/217-6450 (office), 818/398-7697 (home) Jay Malinowski Jay Malinowski is the vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian indie rock group Bedouin Soundclash. He met the group's future bassist Eon Sinclair while attending Queen's University, and they decided to form their own band which reflected the music they both grew up on. , 213/217-6480 (office), 818/951-4364 (home) |
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