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Reclamation Awards $939,057 Contract for Arkansas Valley Conduit Work

Media Contact: Tyler Johnson, (406) 247-7609, tjohnson@usbr.gov

For Release: September 11, 2014

LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $939,057 contract to MWH Americas, Inc., of Denver, Colo., for Utility Location and Land Rights Acquisition Plan Support Services. The work will be performed as part of the Arkansas Valley Conduit, Fryingpan-Arkansas Project in southern Colorado.

"The objective of this contract is to provide Reclamation with utility locations, current ownership information, legal descriptions, and encumbrances affecting the parcels along the construction route," said Jacklynn Gould, Eastern Colorado Area Manager. "In addition, the contractor will verify and update GIS data, and prepare a preliminary land acquisition plan for Reclamation's review and approval."

The work is scheduled to run from September 2014 to September 2015.

The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project is a multipurpose transmountain, transbasin water diversion and delivery project in Colorado. It makes possible an average annual diversion of 52,000 acre-feet of surplus water from the Fryingpan River and other tributaries of the Roaring Fork River, on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, to the Arkansas River basin on the eastern slope.

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