Atkinson-sponsored joint venture apparent low bidder on $384 million Southern California water project.(ATKN:NASDAQ/NMS) today announced that a joint venture led by one of its operating divisions, Atkinson Construction Company, was the apparent low bidder on the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California's Eastside Reservoir Project, with a bid of $384 million. Under the contract, Atkinson Construction Company, as sponsor, and its partners in the venture, Washington Construction Company of Missoula, Montana Missoula is a city in and the county seat of Missoula CountyGR6 in western Montana, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population was 57,053, with more than 100,000 in the metropolitan area making it the second-largest city in , a subsidiary of Kasler Holding Company, and H.B. Zachary Company of San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. will provide all construction services required to build two of the three dams that will form Southern California's largest reservoir near Hemet in Riverside County. The bid is being reviewed for adequacy over the next few days to ensure it meets the District's specifications before being submitted to it's Board of Directors who are expected to act on the contract award at their December 12, 1995 meeting. Work on the 260-billion-gallon reservoir, which in addition to becoming Southern California's largest water storage reservoir will also be the largest earth-filled dam in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , is expected to begin in February 1996 and take some 37 months to complete. "Given the size and scope of this project, submitting the low bid to the Metropolitan Water District represents a major achievement for our Company, and we look forward with a great deal of pride to our participation in this monumental mon·u·men·tal adj. 1. Of, resembling, or serving as a monument. 2. Impressively large, sturdy, and enduring. 3. water project for California," said Jack J. Agresti, President and Chief Executive Officer of Atkinson. As planned, the project will include construction of the reservoir's west and saddle dams, a channel leading to the inlet/outlet tower and 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. of the project's forebay. The larger west dam will be 1.7 miles long and 285 feet high and hold approximately 60 million cubic yards of earth and rock. The smaller saddle dam will hold some 2.6 million cubic yards of fill material. Atkinson operates internationally through three construction companies providing full service construction to markets for power, industrial and commercial building, pulp and paper, mining, infrastructure, and water and wastewater treatment. CONTACT: Atkinson, San Bruno San Bruno (săn br  `nō), city (1990 pop. 38,961), San Mateo co., W Calif., a suburb on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1914. There is light manufacturing and petroleum refining.
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