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SFPUC reports progress on Hetch Hetchy repairs, warns some work to be rebid
Summary
SFPUC staff reported substantial completion on several Hetch Hetchy projects, including Mountain Tunnel interim repairs and the Lower Cherry Aqueduct rehabilitation, and said parts of the Warrenville Substation scope will be delayed and rebid due to contractor performance concerns.
Dan Wade, director of water capital programs with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told commissioners on Nov. 26 the first-quarter update for the Hetch Hetchy Capital Improvement Program covered a mix of completed work, grant-funded mitigations and items staff decided to split from current contracts.
Wade said “the 2018 Mountain Tunnel interim repairs are now completed,” and that the Mountain Tunnel Improvements Project had a mitigated negative declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act issued and that staff had advertised the project for construction bidding. He added that the pre-bid meeting was taking place at Moccasin as the report was presented.
The report also noted “substantial completion” for the Lower Cherry Aqueduct rehabilitation and that the Early Intake Switchyard slope-hazard mitigation work had been awarded and a…
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