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Authority approves pipeline change orders and time-limited contract extensions after BLM and SCE delays

Groundwater Authority · December 11, 2025
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Summary

The board approved Provost & Pritchard change orders totaling $130,031 for imported water pipeline design and environmental services and agreed to time-limited contract extensions (item 15 continued to January; item 16 modified to 03/31/2026) to keep the project moving while staff provides additional operational cost estimates.

The Groundwater Authority approved change orders to the imported water pipeline contracts and took time-limited actions on related contract extensions after staff and consultants described schedule delays tied to Bureau of Land Management permitting timing and later-than-anticipated design work from Southern California Edison.

Provost & Pritchard (represented at the meeting by Jeff Helsley) described two change orders: a $109,965 increase for additional design project-management/coordination and a $20,066 increase for…

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