Atkinson-sponsored joint venture awarded $384 million Southern California water project.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. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 1996--Atkinson
(NASDAQ/NMS:ATKN) Wednesday announced that the board of directors of the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the largest bulk water supplier for municipal use in the world. The name is usually shortened to the "Metropolitan Water District" or simply "MWD". (MWD MWD Metropolitan Water District of Southern CaliforniaMWD Measurement While Drilling (oil drilling) MWD Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (stock symbol) MWD Molecular Weight Distribution MWD Military Working Dog ) at a meeting Tuesday, confirmed that a joint venture led by one of Atkinson's operating divisions, Atkinson Construction Co., has been awarded a $384 million contract for construction on MWD's Eastside Reservoir Project. Under this contract, the single largest awarded in MWD's 68-year history, Atkinson Construction Co., as sponsor, and its partners in the venture, Washington Construction Co. of Missoula, Mont., a subsidiary of Kasler Holding Co., and H.B. Zachary Co. 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. Work on the 260-billion-gallon reservoir is expected to begin in February 1996 and take some 37 months to complete. 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 Jim Stevens Jim Stevens, born July 16, 1984 in Wurzburg, Germany is a striker currently playing for American USL Second Division side Harrisburg City Islanders. Although he was born in Germany, he is American and grew up in Clifton, Virginia. , 415/876-1681 |
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