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OWNER/DEVELOPER: Willamette Water Supply Program
ENGINEER: Black & Veatch Corp. (Jeff McMullen)
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Kiewit Infrastructure West Co.
TUNNELING SUBCONTRACTOR: James W. Fowler Co.
SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: The Willamette Water Supply System Commission’s goal is to provide a stable and seismically resilient water supply for ratepayers in Washington County. The cities of Hillsboro and Beaverton, along with the Tualatin Valley Water District, have come together to build more than 30 miles of large-diameter pipelines, expand the existing raw water facility, and modify an intake on the Willamette River near Wilsonville, a new raw water filtration facility near Sherwood and water reservoirs on Cooper Mountain.
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Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. is building the $3.1 billion Federal Way Link Extension, which will eventually connect to OMF South.
Sound Transit has released the draft environmental impact statement for its south end operations and maintenance facility (OMF) and the price could top $2.8 billion, depending on which of three alternatives are picked. The document also details how each alternative would be built.
The OMF is where light rail trains go for cleaning, storage and maintenance. Sound Transit operates one in the Sodo area of Seattle, is building a second OMF in Bellevue, and has plans for one north of Seattle in addition to this one in the south end. All four OMFs would operate around the clock. OMF South would service about 144 light rail vehicles.
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13 the ASBCA rejected the
contractor s attempt to escape default arising from the
contractor s admitted nonperformance after the government
exercised its offset right. No dispute existed that the government
had terminated the contract because the contractor failed to
deliver the specified equipment by the contractually required
delivery date. The contractor nevertheless argued unsuccessfully
that the government should have excused the nonperformance of its
subcontractor due to lack of payment because the government had
withheld payments to the prime contractor based on problems the
prime had experienced on a separate contract effectively
exercising its offset right. The board held that the default
Fish travel through this ladder before entering two holding ponds.
Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. recently finished a $112 million contract that built the country s largest trap-and-haul fish passage facility, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The facility is adjacent to an existing hatchery on the White River that is owned by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, about 6 miles downstream from Mud Mountain Dam and near the city of Buckley.