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Home > SNWA launches tender for Intake No 3 Low Lake Level Pumping Station

SNWA launches tender for Intake No 3 Low Lake Level Pumping Station

Amanda Foley

Written by Amanda Foley on 05/02/2015 in News

Tagged: underground

In the US, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) is to tender the next stage of the Lake Mead Intake No. 3 project, a Low Lake Level Pumping Station that will draw water from the new intake structure in the bottom of Lake Mead and through the new 3-mile (4.8km) tunnel which has been constructed by Vegas Tunnel Constructors (VTC). Nearly 50% of the contract involves underground work.

SNWA issued a request for qualification-based proposals on February 04, with the award of a pre-construction services contract due in Mary 2015, and the construction contract for the underground excavation scheduled for 2015. Design of the estimated $440 million pump station is expected to take around a year and construction four years.

The original plan had been to procure the pumping station at the same time as the other contracts. “With the global financial situation, we decided to defer the pumping station,” said SNWA project manager Erika Moonin.” That allowed us to modify the criteria. It is now larger and deeper.”

The works for the low lake level pumping station will include mass excavation at surface level; a 525ft (160m), 20ft (6m) diameter shaft; and underground forebay tunnel and connection to existing stub tunnel; two discharge aqueducts; procurement and installation of 20 x 30 MGD pumps; configuring the forebay for 33 submersible pumps in well shafts; and surface buildings.

VTC’s dual-mode Herrenknecht TBM holed through on December 10 last year after a challenging drive which set new records for tunnelling working under hydrostatic pressures of 14 bar (see article on p10). Until the new pump is ready, the Intake No.3 tunnel will be connected to pumps No. 2 and 3 and is expected to become operational in summer this year.

Like the main tunnel and intake structure contract, the new pumping station will be procured under a form of contract that allows contractor input into the design phase. Whereas VTC’s contract was design-and-build, the pumping station will be procured under Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR), a form of contract that has only recently become legal in the State of Nevada.

SNWA PROJECT NOTICE

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