Brut Force -14th Edition - Brutoco

By Tom MorrisonRick Belmontes coordinates pipe installationon Old Lewis Rd.The SalinityPipeline was aninteresting projectfor Brutoco. It involvedreturning to a previous joblocation, BEC Job #314which was The HuenemeRd. box girder bridge overthe Calleguas Creek inCamarillo, CA.This new project was toinstall a portion of pipe of the Calleguas Salinity ManagementProject (SMP). This is a regional pipeline that will collect saltywater generated by groundwater desalting facilities and excessrecycled water and convey that water for reuse. Any unused saltywater will be safely discharged to the ocean, where natural salt levelsare much higher.BEC Job #314—Hueneme Rd. Box Girder Bridge, (1977)Phase 1D of the SMP was to install large sections of a 52 inchdiameter HDPE pipeline on Lewis and Hueneme Roads. The pipelinehad to be reduced to two 20 inch HDPE lines that were pulledthrough the Hueneme Rd. box girder bridge. Other sections of theunderground pipe installed by BEC were comprised of steel and PVC.BEC also constructed twounderground concretevaults in a shoredexcavation that requireddewatering.Angelo Veronesi and Fred Lichtenstern carefully plantheir next move during the installation of a 300 footsection of 52 inch HDPE.The Salinity project waschallenging but wasmade more interestingbecause during thecourse of the work, theagency, CalleguasMunicipal Water District(CMWD), called onBrutoco to respond to anemergency repair of a 12inch buried water main innearby Thousand Oaks,CA. Ironically, our ownunderground utilitysuperintendent, AngeloVeronesi, had previouslybuilt portions of thiswaterline as well. Angelohad the task to get thisline leak located andrepaired in an aroundthe-clockworkoperation.Several booms and rollers were required to move the large sectionsof pipe that were fused together on-site.Anthony Cortez rigs pipe in the critical installation processBenny Antuiano works on the new manholesinstalled in the bridge deck which he had helpedpour on Job 314.Brutoco’s professionalproject team made thejob(s) a success interms of safety,schedule, profitabilityand owner relations.A job well doneAbraham Luna tests water turbidity forguys! • Bill Snee inside the bridgedewatering discharge into Calleguas Creek.