Major Construction and Materials for Which Bids Will Be Requested Through February 1965*—(Continued) Central Valley, Calif.... Constructing about 9.4 miles of San Luis Canal, Do.. Do.. Do.... Do...... Chief Wash. Joseph CRSP, Arizona.. Do. Do.. Dam, CRSP, Colorado.... Do. Do. Reach 4, with a bottom width of 60 ft, to be lined with 4.5-in. unreinforced-concrete lining. Work will also include constructing bridges, irrigation crossings, and turnouts. Near Huron. Furnishing and installing three 123 cfs at 60-ft head, vertical-shaft, centrifugal-type pumping units with 2,300-volt synchronous motors, and associated control equipment. Corning Canal Pumping Plant, three miles southeast of Red Bluff. Completion work for the Mile 18 Pumping Plant will consist of placing concrete for pump embedment and motor support; installing three fixedflow and three variable-pitch impeller, mixedflow-type pumps rated at 2,200 cfs each unit at total head of 125 ft at 120 rpm, transformers, and other imechanical and electrical equipment; and applying architectural finishes. Six 14.4-kv, station-type switchgear; 15-kv isolatedphase bus; two 1,500-kva, 13.2-kv to 480-volt, station-service transformers; and 600-volt nonsegregated-phase bus for Mile 18 Pumping Plant. Constructing about 26.5 miles of Clear Creek South pipelines ranging in size from 8 through 42 in. in diameter for hydrostatic heads of from 100 through 400 ft. Near Redding. Constructing about 8,000 lin ft of 33-in.-diameter pipe siphon, of which about 200 lin ft will cross a lake in a buried trench; and constructing about 1,400 lin ft of 24-in.-diameter pipelines. The pipelines will be either concrete pressure pipe, pretensioned concrete steel cylinder pipe, noncylinder prestressed concrete pipe, or steel pipe for heads up to 200 ft. Near Oroville. Constructing the Flagstaff Substation will consist of constructing a 61- by 23-ft concrete-masonry service building; constructing foundations; furnishing and erecting steel structures; installing four 345-kv circuit breakers, and associated electrical equipment; and grading and fencing the area. About 15 miles east of Flagstaff. Constructing the Glen Canyon Dam Visitor Center complex will consist of constructing a one-story steel frame and precast Mo-Sai panels. An auditorium seating about 90 persons will be included in the plan for Schedule No. 1 and will be omitted in the plan for Schedule No. 2. Two elevators each of about 40-passenger capacity will be furnished and installed under a separate contract. At Page. Additions to the Pinnacle Peak Substation will consist of constructing foundations; furnishing and erecting steel structures; installing one 600-mva, 345/230-kv autotransformer, twelve single-phase, 8,000-kva shunt reactors, and five 230-kv and four 23-kv circuit breakers; and furnishing and installing associated electrical equipment. About 20 miles northeast of Phoenix. Constructing 6.3 miles of access road. Work will include grading, structures, and bituminous surface treatment. About 13 miles northeast of Montrose, and about 5 miles north of Junction U.S. 60 and Colorado 347. Furnishing and constructing about 9 miles of 115kv, wood-pole transmission line with three 477 MCM, 24/7, ACSR conductors and two 36 in. steel strand overhead ground wires. From a point about 6.5 miles northwest of Cimarron, to a point about 1.5 miles southeast of Cimarron. Furnishing, installing, and testing two 66,667-k va, 0.9-pf, 180-rpm, vertical-shaft generators with direct-connected exciters for Morrow Point Powerplant. Columbia Basin, Wash. Constructing Radar Pumping Plant, an indoortype structure, consisting of a reinforced-concrete substructure and a superstructure of structuralsteel frame with insulated metal siding; and furnishing and installing a 20-ton bridge crane to service five electric, motor-driven, horizontalcentrifugal pumping units of 256-cfs total capacity. Provision will be made for future installation of four additional pumping units of 206-cfs total capacity. South of Othello. Project Eklutna, Alaska.. Description of work or material Columbia Basin, Wash. Constructing about 15.4 miles of Wahluke Canal, of which about 3.4 miles will be concrete lined with a bottom width of 16 ft; about 8.9 miles will be earth lined, with a bottom width of 42 ft; and 3.1 miles will be unlined with a bottom width of 42 ft. Near Othello. Constructing a tunnel intake and trashrack structure consisting of a reinforced-concrete base with concrete columns and beams to support metal trashrack bars on three sides and top of structure. The intake structure will be in Eklutna Lake and the work will include cofferdaming and unwatering of the site. Removal of a portion of the existing precast-concrete conduit will also be required. Near Anchorage. Do Constructing the earthfill Eklutna Dam, a new dam to replace the existing structure, about 40 ft high and 800 ft long, containing about 82,000 cu yd. The spillway will consist of an intake structure, an ogee crest to be constructed after diversion, an 18- by 16-ft rectangular conduit, a chute, and a stilling basin. On Eklutna Creek, about 34 miles northeast of Anchorage. Mann Creek, Idaho..... Constructing Spangler Dam, an earthfill structure about 138 ft high and 1,120 ft long, containing about 1,000,000 cu yd, and appurtenant features. The spillway will consist of an inlet structure, an 11-ft-diameter conduit and a stilling basin. The outlet works will consist of an intake structure, a 5-ft-diameter pressure conduit, a gate chamber, a 6-ft 6-in. diameter horseshoe conduit, and a stilling basin. Work will also include relocating about 3 miles of county roads. On Mann Creek, about 13 miles north of Weiser. Constructing the Almena Diversion Dam consisting of a reinforced-concrete ogee overflow weir about 150 ft long; abutment wing walls; sluice way with a 6- by 18-ft radial gate and a constant head orifice-type turnout to canal with two 72- by 60-in. orifice gates, and two 60- by 48-in. turnout gates; and constructing an earth dike about 200 ft long. Near Norton. One 3-phase, 450/600-mva, 345/230-kv autotransformer for Mead Substation. Nineteen 230-kv, 20,000-mva power circuit breakers Eight 287-kv, 25,000-mva power circuit breakers for Constructing Swift Dam, a concrete thin arch Spokane Valley, Wash.. Constructing about 84 miles of 6- to 24-in.-diameter pipeline for heads up to about 250 ft. Near Spokane. United States Department of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, Secretary Bureau of Reclamation, Floyd E. Dominy, Commissioner Washington Office: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, D.C., 20240. REGION 1: Harold T. Nelson, Regional Director, Box 937, Reclamation Building, Fairgrounds, Idaho, 83701. Issued quarterly by the Bureau of Reclamation, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 20240. Use of funds for printing this publication has been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, January 31, 1961. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402. Price 30 cents (single copy). Subscription price: Four issues (1 year) for $1.00 ($1.50 for foreign mailing). DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Colorado's New Future with the FRY-ARK by ELEANOR GALE "SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEEDS COLORADO RIVER WATER." It was painted blue and glittering gold, and mounted over an archway at the Los Angeles County Fair, in a pavilion which housed a marvelous display of the abundance to be found in southern California. I walked from building to building, through lush gardens planned by experts and nurtured all year for this one "home and garden" show, viewing many varieties and mammoth examples of citrus and avocados, cars and homes of the future. And I was struck by a shocking comparison. the needs and support for the project which would save the Arkansas Valley from its yearly classification as a disaster area. The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project had for many years been the "darling" of countless organizations throughout southeastern Colorado and certain partisan legislators in Washington. It was my first year in college away from home, and this was nothing like home! Our town had no palm trees, no orange groves; our State fair exhibits were mostly sheep and cattle, and dust. Our town was in southern Colorado. Southern Colorado, I decided, also needs Colorado River water! What was this project with the unusual name? It was a multiple-purpose project which would supply supplemental water for irrigation of crops also municipal and industrial water, generation and transmission of hydroelectric power, control of floods, provision for the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife, and creation of new recreational opportunities in Colorado. The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project borrows its name from the Fryingpan River, a tributary of the Roaring Fork River, from which water will be diverted under the Continental Divide and into the Arkansas Valley in southeastern Colorado. It is a name which stuck, and it belonged to a project which "stuck." I remembered the summer before, when we were allowed to irrigate our lawns every other day. Some people even "rustled" water after dark, for their thirsty lawns. Shower baths were limited in some places, and air coolers were outlawed. Cattle were dying and ranchers and farmers were moving out. And nobody was moving in. Each day through the mail I received copies of my hometown paper, the Pueblo Star Journal and Chieftain, rolled up the size of a toothpick compared to that of the L. A. Times. In it I read of For or Against For 30 years in Colorado, the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project was something you were for if you lived on one side of the divide-and against if you Secretary of the Department of the Interior Stewart L. Udall speaking at groundbreaking ceremonies for Ruedi Dam, July 19, 1964. |