Amador County – Four months into the construction of the Plymouth water pipeline, the project is 65 percent complete. Project Manager John Eudy of Livermore gave a tour Wednesday of the site of the days work, and he said workers from his company, Mountain Cascade could be finished with the main pipeline by October, and wrap up the rest of the work in a few weeks to a month after that. Segments 5 and 6, between Plymouth and Amador City, are completed, and the crew worked on Segment 4 this week. Eudy said it is 1,800 lineal feet in all, running across property owned by Amador City rancher Hope Luxemberg. He gave a quick tour of the work site, with Quality Control Engineer Bob Valdez, of the Amador Water Agency, showing the blue pipe of the main section, and some black pipe that will be used in low altitude, higher pressure areas, below a steep hill that heads toward Water Street in Amador City. They should get to the 48-degree sloping hill in a few days. They worked further up the hill Wednesday, preparing to tie into a connector. Steel plates covered the existing water main pipeline under a construction road, to protect it. Valdez said the late 1960s pipeline was buried too shallow for modern requirements. He said they bury the 12-inch Plymouth pipeline 5 feet deep, on top of a 6-inch layer of sand, then cover it with a foot of sand, and then finish it with 3-and-a-half feet of cover. The crew includes a production foreman, a couple of technical foremen and a geotechnical soil analyst. Eudy said they mobilized in February and started production in early March. 4 months later, they are 65 percent complete, and about a month ahead of schedule. When they finish on the Luxemberg property, the next step is Segment 2, because Segment 3 uses existing pipelines. Segment 6 was 20,000 linear feet, Eudy said, and Segment 5 was 11,000 linear feet. Valdez, a 10-year resident of Sutter Creek, said people like the look of the new footbridge in Sutter Creek, which will be used to run the pipeline across the creek. Workers will then finish the bridge with a seat running the length of the bridge. The pipeline will deliver treated potable water from the Tanner treatment plant on Ridge Road. Plymouth has a “will serve” letter for rights to 670,000 gallons of water a day. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Friday, 03 July 2009 01:20
Plymouth Water Pipeline
Amador County – Four months into the construction of the Plymouth water pipeline, the project is 65 percent complete. Project Manager John Eudy of Livermore gave a tour Wednesday of the site of the days work, and he said workers from his company, Mountain Cascade could be finished with the main pipeline by October, and wrap up the rest of the work in a few weeks to a month after that. Segments 5 and 6, between Plymouth and Amador City, are completed, and the crew worked on Segment 4 this week. Eudy said it is 1,800 lineal feet in all, running across property owned by Amador City rancher Hope Luxemberg. He gave a quick tour of the work site, with Quality Control Engineer Bob Valdez, of the Amador Water Agency, showing the blue pipe of the main section, and some black pipe that will be used in low altitude, higher pressure areas, below a steep hill that heads toward Water Street in Amador City. They should get to the 48-degree sloping hill in a few days. They worked further up the hill Wednesday, preparing to tie into a connector. Steel plates covered the existing water main pipeline under a construction road, to protect it. Valdez said the late 1960s pipeline was buried too shallow for modern requirements. He said they bury the 12-inch Plymouth pipeline 5 feet deep, on top of a 6-inch layer of sand, then cover it with a foot of sand, and then finish it with 3-and-a-half feet of cover. The crew includes a production foreman, a couple of technical foremen and a geotechnical soil analyst. Eudy said they mobilized in February and started production in early March. 4 months later, they are 65 percent complete, and about a month ahead of schedule. When they finish on the Luxemberg property, the next step is Segment 2, because Segment 3 uses existing pipelines. Segment 6 was 20,000 linear feet, Eudy said, and Segment 5 was 11,000 linear feet. Valdez, a 10-year resident of Sutter Creek, said people like the look of the new footbridge in Sutter Creek, which will be used to run the pipeline across the creek. Workers will then finish the bridge with a seat running the length of the bridge. The pipeline will deliver treated potable water from the Tanner treatment plant on Ridge Road. Plymouth has a “will serve” letter for rights to 670,000 gallons of water a day. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
