Brown and Caldwell to Design Pipeline for Livermore-Amador Valley Water Management Agency.

PLEASANT HILL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1999-- Nationwide environmental engineering and consulting firm, Brown and Caldwell has been selected to design 16 miles of new pipeline for the Livermore-Amador Valley Water Management Agency (LAVWMA).

Along with other improvements, this project will increase the area's capacity to serve planned growth and to deal with wet weather flows.

The pipeline will be constructed mostly within public right-of-way along existing roads. It will begin at the LAVWMA pump station immediately east of I-680 in Pleasanton and run westward for eventual outfall into the San Francisco Bay. Brown and Caldwell will design the new pipeline which will be constructed mostly with open cut construction with some directional drilling and microtunneling. The pipeline design is expected to be complete in April of 2000.

Established in 1947, Brown and Caldwell is a multi-disciplined environmental engineering and consulting firm that provides scientific and engineering services to government and industry. With headquarters in Pleasant Hill, California, the company employs 900 people in 30 offices throughout the United States. Engineering News-Record ranks Brown and Caldwell 7th largest among engineering firms providing sewer/waste systems design and 61st among the nation's top 500 engineering firms.