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Under the five-year program, Tetra Tech will provide information
technology support services for the All Weapons
Information System (AWIS), the U.S. Navy’s centralized web
database for ordnance logistics data. The AWIS suite of automated
tools is used to collect, track, and report vital information
associated with ordnance performance, testing,
deployment, and operation. Tetra Tech will provide design,
development, enhancement, and maintenance services
for AWIS.
CH2M Hill Construction Underway for Colorado’s
Biggest Water Project in Decades
As much as 100 million gallons a day of Arkansas River
water trapped in a reservoir for southern Colorado and
downriver states is about to take a left turn — to Colorado’s
biggest water project in decades. Construction crews
this week began work on the $2.3 billion Southern Deliv-
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ery System. It is designed to pump water uphill and north
from Pueblo Reservoir — through a 62-mile pipeline — to
sustain Colorado Springs, which owns the rights to the river
water, and other growing Front Range cities.
CH2MHill project engineers and construction chiefs at
Pueblo Reservoir in May re-channelled the river below the
240-foot-high dam using sandbags. They’re adjusting dam
valves to dry an area so that digging crews can start laying
the pipeline without relying on expensive underwater divers.
The pipeline will snake from Pueblo Reservoir under a
subdivision where six homes in a 50-foot-wide corridor will
be removed. It must carry water under four highways, including
Interstate 25, a heron nesting area, Fountain Creek,
railroad tracks and several cattle ranches and crop fields.
Access across 175 parcels has been arranged with property
owners receiving about $5.3 million in compensation.
Deals granting access across 125 other parcels aren’t yet
done, with Colorado Springs authorities filing eminent domain
paperwork in 23 cases.