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MAGAZINE Kiewit Continues Work on Phase 1 North City Water Reclamation Expansion Project

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KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO. Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. Continues Work on Phase 1 of the North City Water Reclamation Plant Expansion Project SUKUT CONSTRUCTION Builds Phase I and Phase II of Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Project for the Coachella Valley Water District T.E. ROBERTS Continues Sure and Steady Growth in the Southern California Pipeline Construction Industry W.A. RASIC Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts Calls on W. A. Rasic Construction Company, Inc. to Perform Emergency Repair Work on 48-Inch Sewer Line in Carson HORIZON UNDERGROUND Utilizes Innovative Equipment and Technology, Along with an Exceptionally Trained Workforce to Remain on Top of the Underground Utility Construction Game

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Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. Continues Work on Phase 1 of the North City Water Reclamation Plant Expansion Project

By Brian Hoover, Senior Editor

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omposed of the chemical elements of hydrogen and oxygen, water is an inorganic, colorless, transparent and odorless chemical substance necessary for the continuance of all forms of life. San Diego County Water Authority receives most of its water from the Metropolitan Water District (MWD), with around 25% from other local water sources.

MWD specifically gets its water from two primary sources, the Colorado River and the State Water Project. The California State Water Project (SWP) is a multi-purpose water storage and delivery system consisting of a collection of canals, pipelines, reservoirs, and hydroelectric power facilities. The system extends approximately 705 miles or two-thirds of California, to bring clean water to 27 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland. So, even with all of these programs and water sources, what can be done when a city’s demand for drinking water still exceeds the supply? This is where the local projects referred to above come into play.

The City of San Diego is currently implementing a local solution by constructing the infrastructure for an innovative strategy referred to as Pure Water San Diego. According to city authorities, Pure Water San Diego’s phased multi-year program will supply nearly half the city’s drinking 6

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Left: Rick Luevano (Civil Division Superintendent), Omar Aleman (Civil Field Engineer), Mikael Elia Abi Khier (Civil Field Engineer), John Ward (Field Engineer), Rodelle Empeno (Lead Field Engineer), Stephan Urban (Civil Superintendent) and Victor Ramirez (Civil General Foreman).

Below Left: Kiewit is installing pump stations, pipelines and other infrastructure components.

Below Right: Trench Shoring Company is supplying the shoring to Kiewit for this project.

water by 2035. The program uses proven water purification technology to clean recycled water to produce safe, high-quality drinking water. The Pure Water facility treats recycled wastewater at the North City Water Reclamation Plant to purified water standards.

The state-of-the-art five-step treatment process includes ozonation, biological activated carbon filters, membrane filtration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet light with advanced oxidation.

Phase 1 of the Pure Water project was officially kicked off in Aug. 2021. Mayor Todd Gloria was on hand to celebrate the launch, along with other esteemed state and federal officials. According to a press CALCON TRAC TOR.CO M

release on sandiego.gov, Mayor Gloria had this to say about Pure Water San Diego.

“Today,we celebrated the launch of the largest, most ambitious infrastructure project in San Diego’s history,” Gloria said. “The Pure Water program will guarantee us a local water resource that allows San Diego to be drought-resilient and environmentally sustainable. This is a key part of how we will provide clean drinking water to our residents for generations to come.”

Phase 1 of the Pure Water project includes 11 individual construction projects, including the North City Water Reclamation Plant and North City Pure Water Facility and Pump Station located across the road on UN DE RG RO UN D CO N S T RUC T I O N / 2 0 2 2

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Above Left: Excavation complete with soil nail walls for installation of primary sedimentation tank.

Above Right: Excavation in progress for another sedimentation tank.

Right: Filling and grading area where four new clarifier tanks will be placed.

Eastgate Mall. The other Phase 1 projects include the construction of additional pump stations and pipelines. Phase 1 will provide 30 million gallons per day (MGD) and will be operational in 2024.

Kiewit Does Their Part on the North City Water Reclamation Plant Expansion Project The North City Water Reclamation Plant (NCWRP) Expansion will increase the plant’s recycled water production from 30 MGD to 52 MGD. Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. (Kiewit) is performing the civil construction part of this section of the Phase 1 contract. Kiewit’s work includes all the grading, excavation, mechanical to install the pipe and construction to build structures, tanks, soil nail walls, footings, backfill and finish work. Stephan Urban is the Civil Superintendent working for Kiewit to help oversee all North City Water Expansion project operations. “We will be on the job from beginning to end. Our work goes beyond the new water facility to include the construction of new roads, the relocation of a guard shack, and the excavation and installation of a massive amount of new storm drain,” says 8

Urban. “Our onsite work began in Sept. 2021 and will be complete sometime in spring 2024.”

According to Civil Division General Superintendent Rick Luevano, Kiewit’s total time on the job is estimated to come in at around 450,000 manhours. “Our contract is at right around $255 million and includes the construction of structures that will require 168,000 manhours. In addition, mechanical is expected to come in at around 122,000 hours, electrical 92,000 and civil 67,000 manhours. We will also pour approximately 45,000 cubic yards of concrete and place more than 18,000 linear feet of underground pipe. Above ground pipe is expected to be at around 43,000 linear feet, along with approximately 43,000 linear feet of electrical conduit,” says Luevano.

“This is a full export/import project due to the limited space and consistency of the existing soil onsite. When complete, our Kiewit crews will export approximately 111,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock and import around 130,000 cubic yards of new aggregate and dirt.”

Civil Superintendent Stephan Urban says that after first mobilizing the administration trailers and

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establishing other work infrastructure like company parking areas, Kiewit constructed a protection slab over a 60-inch storm drain where the four new clarifier tanks will eventually rest. “One of our initial jobs required the relocation of a 12-inch waterline so that our crews could begin excavation for Building 10. This was necessary to allow for the space needed to construct the soil nail walls and building,” says Urban. “Our crews also recently began the excavation for Building 16, which will be around 600-feet in length and require the exporting of around 30,000 cubic yards of dirt. This expansion project will add four new 4.2-million-gallon clarifier tanks and another 3-million-gallon tank to the North City Pure Water Facility. The real challenge is that we are working within an active plant facility. There is just so much infrastructure work that includes a lot of electrical rerouting and installing pump stations and other infrastructure.

However, everything is going smoothly due to all the great preconstruction and detailed logistical work our team members have done.” { Continued on page 10 } C A LCO N T R AC TO R .CO M

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Above: Kiewit working on area where four new 4.2-milliongallon clarifier tanks will soon be constructed. Notice the picture directly to the right of two clarifier tanks already in place on the project.

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Rodelle Empeno is the Lead Field Engineer working on Phase 1 of the North City Water Reclamation Plant Expansion Project. He oversees and directs the other three field engineers and is a crucial component to the overall success of this massive infrastructure project. Mikael Elia Abi Khier is one of the Civil Field Engineer working under Empeno and he explains some of the operation construction strategies on this job. “We are currently installing 96-inch fiber reinforced pipe that will be placed 50-feet below the surface, all while supporting a cogent facility. This area is around 700 lineal feet in length and 350-feet wide, and it slopes to around 25-feet in-depth.

This is one of the primary sedimentation tanks where the human waste initially comes into the plant,” says Abi Khier. “The soil nail wall for this tank is complete, and construction of the tank will begin soon. Before this can begin, however, our crews must install 12” 10

and 6” ductile pipe at the bottom for all of the various light utilities.”

Abi Khier continues to point out the tremendous amount of engineering involved in a project like this with so many existing utilities.

“We are digging into the hillside, so soil nail walls are needed for shoring.

Soil nail walls are cost-effective but also very challenging on this particular job due to all of the existing utilities,” continues Abi Kheir.

Civil General Superintendent Rick Luevano has great praise for his project team members. “Everyone out here has a job to do and we have the best in the business getting it all done professionally and efficiently. This requires the use of several heavy machines from our equipment fleet. We have mostly Cat equipment on site, including Cat 349’s, 335’s, 325’s, and Cat 336 excavators. We also have a Cat 374, 165,000-pound excavator coming to the site for digging deep to install things like 96-inch foul airlines,” continues Urban. “We are and will be using a massive amount of shoring which we are renting

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from the Trench Shoring Company.

Trench Shoring Company and their representative, Israel Canal, have taken great care to ensure that we have all the right shoring delivered on time and to appropriate specifications. We always enjoy working with the folks at Trench Shoring Company.”

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected engineering and construction organizations. Kiewit’s commitment to safety, quality, and environmental stewardship is ingrained in everything they do. Kiewit’s resources and experience ensure that their clients receive the highest quality available today, from the smallest job to multi-billion projects. For more information on Kiewit, please visit www.kiewit.com.

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Above: Sukut Construction crews excavating and screening backfill soil on the Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Phase II project for Coachella Valley Water District.

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Builds Phase I and Phase II of Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Project for the Coachella Valley Water District

By Brian Hoover, Senior Editor

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othing is more precious than water for farmers and ranchers in the Coachella Valley. They require a steady water source to grow citrus, dates, grapes, melons, corn, lettuce, carrots, broccoli, and other vegetables. Currently, irrigation water is delivered to the farmers and residents through four sources. These include groundwater, recycled water, imported water from the State Water Project and the Colorado River via the Coachella Canal, a branch of the All-American Canal.

The Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) provides all drinking and domestic water from the area’s groundwater basins, also referred to as aquifers. Water management is a priority for CVWD. This involves developing alternatives to using groundwater for non-potable outdoor irrigation. While most agricultural irrigation water comes from the Colorado River through the 123-mile Coachella Canal, one-quarter to one-third of it is provided from groundwater pumped from privately owned wells. It is imperative that CVWD continues to replenish the groundwater supplies to avoid negative results that come with dry wells and sinking lands. These underground aquifers are very crucial not only to the farmers and residents but also to the area’s wildlife habitat. The groundwater aquifers also serve as storage basins that are often needed during periods of droughts. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) requires local water users to bring groundwater to sustainable levels by the early 2040s. Currently, groundwater recharge projects are springing up across the state as a solution to replenishing these vital underground aquifers.

OASIS IN-LIEU RECHARGE PROJECT – PHASE I The CVWD contracted Sukut Construction (Sukut) in October 2019 to construct Phase I of the Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Project in Thermal, California. Phase I represented the initial connection to the CVWD canal distribution system. The project, valued at approximately $14,000,000, consisted of constructing a 60 acre-feet concrete-lined reservoir and installing 2,835 linear feet of 72 inch steel pipeline.

Additionally, the job called for the installation of a very complex bypass system with pipe ranging from 84 inch down to 18 inch in diameter, a 72 inch lateral tie-in, and construction of a reinforced concrete control structure that housed two 75HP vertical turbine pumps, motors, valves, and two 48 inch motor-actuated slide gates.

The work also included electrical conduit installation and surface restoration.

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Above: Sukut Construction installing 42 inch concrete cylinder pipe at the Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Phase II project.

OASIS IN-LIEU RECHARGE PROJECT – PHASE II March 2021 marked the beginning of Phase II of the Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Project. After successfully completing the first phase, Sukut was tasked with serving as the prime contractor on this $49,428,000 project that continues where Phase I left off.

The ongoing project includes the design and land acquisition for four reservoirs, six pump stations, and approximately 17.5 miles of distribution pipeline. Additionally, the construction involves expanding the current irrigation distribution system to serve an additional 4,520 acres of land and provide 32,000 more acre-feet of Colorado River water per year as a substitute for groundwater pumping. Farmers are not the only beneficiaries of this critical project. The 36 golf courses 14

within the CVWD area will have their groundwater supplemented by the new recharge system.

Ray Sollano is the project manager overseeing Phase II of the Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Project for Sukut. “This phase was broken out into four construction segments: PVC pipe installation, steel pipe installation, construction and lining of the reservoirs, concluding with the construction of the pump stations,” says Sollano. “Once we received notice to proceed, we began mobilizing our equipment and setting up administration office trailers. Next, our crews concentrated on potholing to locate and expose existing utilities that could conflict with the new pipeline installation.

This was a critical point in the project as it determined the final design of the pipeline, especially the steel pipe run.”

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According to Sollano, once all unknowns were uncovered, they began the first segment of the project, installing approximately 11 miles of PVC pipe. “This operation consisted of excavations in very rocky soil and depths varying from six to eighteen feet. We implemented a fast-paced installation by utilizing two Sukut crews working simultaneously at two different areas of the project. Each pipe installation crew was led by a job foreman and supported with three excavators, one wheel loader, and a 4,000-gallon water truck.”

As Sukut continues excavating and constructing the 17.5 miles of pipeline, they will also be performing all ancillary excavation, rock removal, dewatering, and surface restoration.

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Above: Sukut Construction installing irrigation pipe on the Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Phase II project.

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depending on the depth and soil conditions. In some cases, opencut excavations are an option, but some excavations require shoring which is being supplied by Trench Shoring Company,” says Sollano.

“According to the design and specifications of this project, our crews are required to use slurry backfill after installing the pipe. Any remaining dirt spoils will be used to construct the reservoirs and the pump station pads or stockpiled for future CVWD use. The second construction segment consists of installing concrete-cylinder and welded steel pipe ranging from 39 to 66 inches in diameter. Due to the length of the project and as a means to control the water distribution, the larger diameter pipe is closer to the tie-in at Phase I, and it gradually gets smaller at the extremities of the project.”

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According to Sollano, production on Phase II of the Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Project is dependent on the complexity and the depth and width of each excavated section.

“On average, our crews are excavating and installing anywhere from 150 to 400 linear feet of pipe per day. While speed and efficiency are always desirable, safety is always the number one focus and concern,” says Sollano. “Our crews have to be extremely careful in all portions of the work, especially in the areas that have limited access.”

In addition to performing work directly outlined in the scope of the project, Sukut has to simultaneously keep a firm grip on other moving parts, such as preserving trees and coordinating their work with the local farmers.

“Our crews have to remove, transplant, and sometimes protect in place any trees that are found

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in our path,” says Sollano. “One of the biggest critical challenges to our schedule is coordinating with the various local farmers to avoid disturbing their harvesting schedules. They grow a wide variety of vegetables, fruit, and other crops with different growing and harvesting seasons. This dictates where and what type of pipeline section our crews could work on from week to week.”

Close coordination with the farmers is crucial to attaining minimal disruption, even requiring temporary irrigation shutdowns from time to time. “Fortunately, our team has always been able to adapt to the change of pace during this project,” adds Sollano.

The construction of the reservoirs and pump stations is currently underway and is anticipated to be completed in late summer 2022, according to Sollano.

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Phase II of the Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Project is currently ahead of schedule and is projected to be complete by the end of October of 2022. The project will expand CVWD’s service area for the delivery of Colorado River Water and comply with the Source Substitution element (In-Lieu Recharge) within the CVWD Management Plan. “We have built a great relationship with the wonderful people at the CVWD. CALCON TRAC TOR.CO M

We at Sukut would like to take a moment to thank them for the opportunity to work on this project alongside their extremely professional team,” concludes Sollano. “I also want to thank and recognize Sukut’s management team consisting of Nick Osborne, Roger Schwarz, Christopher Kurnat, and the leading foremen, Nathaniel Barnett, Rick Warda, Ramon Felix, Tim Fulkerson, and Chris Hartwell. Everyone is working

Above: Cat and Komatsu excavators digging, backfilling, and compacting soil on Phase II portion of Oasis In-Lieu Recharge Project.

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T.E. Roberts, Inc. Continues Sure and Steady Growth in the Southern California Pipeline Construction Industry

L-R: Tim & Justin Roberts, T.E. Roberts, Inc., at their Irvine headquarters.

By Brian Hoover, Senior Editor

T.E. Roberts, Inc. (T.E. Roberts) was formed in 2000 by the father and son team of Tim and Justin Roberts. Tim worked for another general engineering construction firm for around 18 years, while his son worked for the same company for nearly three years. It eventually became apparent that the time had come to see what they could do independently. Both men started their civil general engineering construction career in the trenches with a shovel in hand. “Before starting T.E. Roberts, I spent most of my time as a welder, and my father was a superintendent. Then, 18

we started T.E. Roberts with my father and I and two other laborers,” says Justin (Roberts). “We started out trenching on underground construction jobs with just the four of us. We took on small water service replacement projects and then moved on to bigger jobs like installing fire hydrants and 6-inch to 8-inch water lines. This quickly progressed into larger sewer and storm drain projects as we continued to grow in size and revenue.”

So, with a focus on family business values and a long-term growth plan, Tim and Justin

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concentrated on installing integral water pipeline systems within the residential, municipal, and industrial sectors. T.E. Roberts is also recognized throughout the industry as a leader in water retrofit. This process helps conserve a region’s valuable potable water supply and converts potable water lines to recycled water lines for commercial, industrial, and landscape irrigation purposes.

Today, with over 100 employees, the company has received several awards and accolades for its expertise in designing and building { Continued on page 20 } C A LCO N T R AC TO R .CO M

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SEWER LINE REPLACEMENT FOR EAST ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT IN TUSTIN T.E. Roberts is currently on a job where they are removing and replacing 15-and-18-inch sewer lines in the streets of Tustin to an average of 16-feet in depth. “We began this project in December of last year and will have everything wrapped up by the end of this

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April. Our crews started by grinding out the existing asphalt pavement section, followed by setting up a pumping system to bypass the existing sewer line for the specific section being worked on for the day,” says Roberts. “We then began excavating to remove the section of smaller diameter clay pipe to be replaced with new PVC over approximately 4,000 linear feet.” T.E. Roberts crews used a John Deere 470 excavator, and John Deere wheel loaders and backhoes purchased from Coastline Equipment, supported by trench boxes and steel plates C A LCO N T R AC TO R .CO M

Left: John Deere 470 excavator digging for installation for trench box.

Below Left: Installing the trench box provided by Trench Shoring Company.

Below Right: John Deere 470 excavator loading trenching spoils into truck.

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WATERLINE REPLACEMENT ON WATERMAN BOULEVARD IN ANAHEIM According to Roberts, T.E. Roberts crews are also currently working in Anaheim on an 8-inch, 3,000 linear feet design-build waterline replacement project.

“Our crews are excavating 4-to-5-feet down with the support of our hydraulic jacks and plates,” says Roberts. “Along with using our John Deere 710 backhoe and John Deere 544 wheel loader, we also rented a Cat 450 backhoe with an operator from Savala Equipment Rentals.” This is a typical bread and butter project CALCON TRAC TOR.CO M

for T.E. Roberts, but sometimes, the jobs are more extensive and require the deployment of much bigger crews for more extended periods.

UNDERGROUND BRINE LINE PROJECT FROM BEAUMONT TO SAN BERNARDINO T.E. Roberts recently completed one of the company’s largest projects ever on an underground Brine Line project running from Beaumont on into San Bernardino.

“We installed 9-miles of fusible 12-inch HDPE pipeline from two to three different headings that included multiple deep bores under creeks and a railroad,” says Roberts. “This was a tricky project because we touched on and

worked within numerous cities and agencies along the way. We utilized a variety of heavy equipment pieces that included vacuum trucks and underground boring machines. We relied on a crew of 15 to 30 team members at the height of this project that took nearly a year to complete at a project cost of more than $13 million.”

T.E. Roberts also recently broke ground on another large project in Riverside. “We are working for the City of Riverside, where our crews are installing just shy of a mile of 54-inch CMLC potable waterline,” continues Roberts. “This approximately $5 million job began this past November and should be complete in June 2022.”

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Left: Cat 450 backhoe from Savala Equipment Rentals excavating for final tie-in to the water system.

Below L-R: Cesar Lopez, Doug Sage, Eddie Perez, Adrian Trujillo and Tim Roberts. Sitting in the cab is Lanny Nelson.

THE EQUIPMENT MAKES A DIFFERENCE T.E. Roberts currently owns and operates around 200 pieces of heavy equipment. According to Roberts, the company’s fleet is made up primarily of John Deere and Cat machines. “We utilize a variety of equipment pieces from the smallest walk-behind trencher to John Deere 470G LC 113,000pound excavators. Around 80 percent of our heavy yellow iron units are John Deere machines purchased from Coastline Equipment,” says Roberts. “We also have several Cat machines from Quinn Company Cat and a large fleet of other support equipment like trenchers, rollers, water trucks, dump trucks and scissor lifts.”

When T.E. Roberts is busy and running short on available equipment, they turn to companies like Savala Equipment Rental for additional machines and operators.

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provides great customer service, and they are always reliable and on time with their deliveries. They also stock and maintain a huge fleet of late-model, industry-leading machines that we know we can depend on with the industry’s most dependable operators on the rare occasions we need one.”

According to Justin Roberts, his company consistently adds new backhoes, wheel loaders, and excavators to their fleet. “Just this week, we took delivery of a brandnew John Deere 710L backhoe

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from the great people at Coastline Equipment. We are still replacing units due to the new CARB compliance regulations. These new machines seem to last forever, and we have some units with 10,000 to 15,000 hours,” concludes Roberts. “We hope to remain on the same steady growth trajectory, and I would love to see significant growth in our future.” For more information on T.E. Roberts, Inc., please visit www.teroberts.com or call their Irvine corporate office at (714) 669-0072. Cc C A LCO N T R AC TO R .CO M

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Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts Calls on W. A. Rasic Construction Company, Inc. to Perform Emergency Repair Work on 48-inch Sewer Line in Carson Above: W.A. Rasic team members shown here with installed HOBAS pipe section on emergency sewer line repair project for LACSD in the City of Carson.

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illions of gallons of untreated sewage recently found its way into the Dominguez Channel, which empties into LA Harbor, after a 48-inch main sewer line failed Dec. 30 2021, in the City of Carson.

According to other news sources, the spill is the largest on record for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD). The sewer 24

collapse was located near the 110 Northbound off-ramp to 220th Street and released approximately 7-to-8.5 million gallons of raw waste into the nearby storm drain prompting the closure of several beaches in and around Long Beach.

LACSD has several certified contractors on call for just such an emergency and on this occasion, they called upon W. A. Rasic

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Construction Company, Inc. (W. A. Rasic) to excavate and repair the damaged section. Shane Sato is a division manager for W. A. Rasic and oversaw the emergency operation for LACSD. “We received a call on the night of Dec. 30 2021, about a sewer spill in the city of Carson off the I-110 off-ramp to Carson Street. We were notified that the area had a massive C A LCO N T R AC TO R .CO M

Left: Massive sinkhole created from 48-inch sewer line rupture in the City of Carson.

sinkhole directly adjacent to an existing building. Initially, the depth of the existing sewer line was unknown but was thought to be around 12 feet deep,” says Sato.

“We immediately mobilized personnel and equipment to begin investigating with close coordination and direction from LACSD. We eventually found that the sinkhole extended to the edge of the building and also that the sewer line in question was at a depth of around 20-feet.”

LACSD’s next move was to shut down the northbound I-110 offramp with the direction of Caltrans.

This was followed by implementing a sewer bypass system that diverted the waste to the next maintenance hole. However, due to the size of the sewer pipe in question and the strength of the flow, it was necessary to install yet another seven bypass systems to alleviate the overflow issues. “Once the bypass and freeway shutdown were complete, our crews began the excavation and shoring process utilizing trench shields and steel plates provided by Trench Shoring Company. Specifically, two trench shields were stacked on top of one another. We also installed steel plates at the ends of the boxes,” says Sato. “Due to the proximity of the building to the sinkhole, it was extremely difficult to maneuver CALCON TRAC TOR.CO M

the equipment and shoring.

To accomplish this, the excavator had to straddle over the active bypass lines and part of the maintenance hole, rendering it unable to track.

Additionally, it was requested that we utilize concrete slurry to backfill behind the trench shields to fill up any preexisting voids to help support the integrity of the building.”

Sato explains that after the excavation and shoring were nearly complete on New Year’s Eve, it was discovered that the top portion of the existing 48-inch concrete sewer pipe had collapsed in on itself. “The continued flow of the sewer system caused the debris and dirt to be carried downstream, severely clogging the sewer line in the process,” continues Sato.

“After securing safe access, our crews created a dam upstream to prevent the sewer water from entering the work area. We then began both repairing the broken line and clearing the debris from the downstream section.”

After further exploration and excavation, it was discovered that the building adjacent to the sinkhole had been built on top of the existing trunk sewer line.

Because of the poor condition of the pipe section, it was determined that no person could enter the line as it had the potential of collapsing like the sewer outside of the building footprint. According to Sato, LACSD attempted to have the debris pushed downstream to the plant by removing the temporary dam and letting the sewer flow through the line. The hope was that the flow and turbulence would

break apart the debris and allow it to be carried downstream. This method, unfortunately, did not work as there was insufficient velocity in the sewer, so W. A. Rasic had to reestablish the dam and move to other methods. Among these methods was the rudimentary use of hand shovels to manually clean out the sewer line downstream.

When they could no longer reach the embedded material, pressurized water and vacuum trucks were utilized to dislodge and remove the dirt and debris. “We started with pressurized water to loosen the debris at the pipe entrance. When this was no longer feasible, our crews began utilizing high-pressure jetting lines to loosen the material, along with Vactor sewer cleaning trucks that vacuumed the debris into its truck-mounted tank,” says Sato. “This was slow and tedious work due to the type and amount of soil that had traveled a long distance downstream.”

On or around Jan. 3 2022, the existing pipeline was investigated by video and cleared to restore normal flow until the specialized HOBAS pipe could arrive for the sliplining process. Sliplining involves pushing or pulling a new pipe of smaller diameter into an existing line. The annular area in question was then grouted between the pipe to prevent leakage and establish maximum structural integrity. “LACSD focused on reestablishing and ensuring the flow so that another sinkhole would not occur under the existing building,” continues Sato.

“The determination was made to slipline the existing 48” concrete pipe with 42” diameter FRP pipe from HOBAS. An emergency order was placed on New Year’s Eve, and Bijan Khamanian with HOBAS accepted the challenge. A total of 200 feet or (20) 10-foot sections of

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Above: Preparing the 10-foot long, 42-inch FRP pipe from HOBAS for sliplining process.

Above Right: W. A. Rasic team members were equipped with special protective suits and harnesses while using Vactor sewer cleaning truck to remove debris. Other instruments like air blowers and gas monitors were also used to keep team members safe.

Right: Cat 345 excavator and Cat 450 backhoe were used to excavate and as support.

HOBAS pipe was eventually used to repair the damaged pipeline area.”

Sato says that while his crews waited for the HOBAS pipe to arrive from Texas, they continued to prepare for the slipline installation.

“Conventional sliplining requires a minimum of two pits, specifically a launch and a receiving pit. However, due to the placement of the existing building, there was no way to excavate a receiving pit anywhere close to the line break,” says Sato.

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technique of sliplining only a single portion of the line from a single pit.

We constructed a temporary bulkhead on a piece of existing 42” HOBAS pipe that created a seal between the HOBAS and the existing 48-inch concrete pipe. Stainless steel cables were also procured and attached to the furthest pipe downstream. These steel cables were then anchored to the upstream concrete structure to hold the HOBAS pipe in place and prevent it from ‘walking’ downstream with the live sewer flow and grout pressure before the grout could lock in the pipe.”

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On Jan. 7, the expedited delivery of the HOBAS pipe from Texas was completed and the pipe was offloaded at the site. “The sliplining continued until Sunday, Jan. 9 and after video confirmation, was deemed a complete success. We backfilled with slurry and began the final demobilization and cleanup process, allowing for the opening of the off-ramp Jan. 3,” continues Sato. “We ran two crews of 10 in order to work around the clock.

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Left: Emergency repair work being done on collapsed 48inch sewer line in the City of Carson. Workspace was limited with sinkhole located between existing building and the I-110 Freeway.

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displayed tremendous grit and abilities under pressure working through the new year holiday. I want to take a moment to thank all of our crew members who volunteered for this emergency operation,” concludes Sato. “I also want to acknowledge our two superintendents who worked tirelessly on this project. Humberto Bobadilla supervised the initial response, shoring and excavation and Mark Stewart, oversaw the sliplining, grouting, backfill, and final cleaning. We perform 28

emergency services for many agencies, and I will say that this particular job represented one of the more challenging situations we have ever faced. We are all honored to have been chosen by LACSD to perform this critical repair for the City of Carson.”

After restoration work was complete from the Dec. 30, 212th Street spill, another 800 feet of the sewer line was repaired on Carson Street with a cast-in-place liner (CIP). An additional contract was approved to address and repair another 3,000 feet of sewer

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downstream with a CIP liner. Once this section is complete sometime this fall, the entire 216th Street relocation trunk sewer will have been rehabilitated and ready for many future decades of service.

W. A. Rasic Construction Company, Inc. is available for emergencies 24/7, 365 days a year. For more information on W. A. Rasic Construction Company, Inc., please visit www.warasic.com or call their Long Beach headquarters at (562) 928-6111. Cc

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HORIZON UNDERGROUND, INC. Utilizes Innovative Equipment and Technology, Along with an Exceptionally Trained Workforce to Remain on Top of the Underground Utility Construction Game

By Brian Hoover, Senior Editor

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t all started from a small twobedroom apartment in Corona in 2000, where the husbandand-wife team of Lance and Bobbiann Fair decided to create an underground construction business. At first, the plan was to start as a daily rate directional boring contractor and see where the industry took them. The couple purchased a Vermeer D24x40 directional drill and began building their clientele one job at a time.

They decided to name the company Horizon Underground, Inc. (Horizon Underground) and after a few years in business, 51% owner, Bobbiann, did the work to acquire an “A” license for the company. This opened up many new doors as customers continued to request additional services like potholing, setting boxes and open-cut trenching. As the jobs grew in size, precision and dollar amount, the decision was made that Horizon Underground would become a full-service underground utility contractor. Now, 22 years later, innovative technology and 30

the hiring of tremendously skilled operators and laborers have made Horizon Underground a clear leader in directional drilling and open excavation projects. They have installed hundreds of miles of conduit and cable throughout the Western United States and expanded their customer base to include telecom, wireless providers, solar, electric, gas and railroad.

Horizon Underground has the equipment, personnel, experience and capability to self-perform all aspects of underground utility construction as a subcontractor or prime contractor. The following is just a shortlist of services that Horizon Underground currently offers: directional boring, open trench construction, hydro-vacuum excavation, utility vault construction, conduit rodding/verification/ documentation, inner-duct and cable installation (fiber, copper, coaxial), aerial construction, fiber splicing/testing, saw-cutting, utility service locating, concrete construction, asphalt restoration, project management/planning/

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scheduling, route planning/ estimation and permit acquisition.

Daniel Fair is the General Manager at Horizon Underground and helps to oversee and manage all 65 team members and a fleet of specialty equipment. “Our main forte is probably our work within the public right of way. We get called to a wide variety of jobs from agencies, utility companies and general contractors. For example, our crews excavate in the public right of way to install or service utilities for highrises, housing tracks and other largescale projects,” says Daniel. “We have a long list of clients in the communications business, such as AT&T and Crown Castle just to name a few, who own, operate and maintain vast fiber-optic networks.

For instance, we are currently installing around 70-miles of 4-way Future Path conduit for CVIN (dba Vast Networks) from Fresno to Bakersfield. We are installing the conduit for fiber for the long-haul work, up to individual buildings and structures.”

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Top Left: Horizon Underground team member trimming up the asphalt edges with saw at a solar panel project at Grossmont College in San Diego.

Left: Horizon Underground’s Ditch Witch RT-120 with Rock Wheel Attachment.

Above: Horizon Underground’s Vac Truck at work.

According to Fair, Horizon Underground also performs underground work for California unified school districts and colleges.

Currently, the company is installing electrical conduit for mutiple colleges under the same portfolio and DIR number. “We have a crew at Grossmont College trenching in some pretty heavy cobble. This is a $2 million project where our crews are installing around 4,500 linear feet of solar carrier pipe over a two-month time frame,” says Daniel. “Located just a few miles down the road, we have another crew placing approximately 3,800 linear feet of the same solar conduit at Cuyamaca College.” For this type of work we probably easily complete 6 to 7 school districts a year.

Daniel points out that Horizon Underground currently holds a three-year contract with Union Pacific Railroad. The primary purpose of the contract is for the installation of low voltage conduit underneath the railroad tracks from El Paso to Montana and on over to the Pacific Ocean. Additionally, CALCON TRAC TOR.CO M

Horizon Underground works directly for BNSF Railway doing the same type of work. However, the contracts are structured one job at a time and on a bid-basis. “We recently completed work for BNSF in Placentia on Orangethorpe Avenue and South Van Buren Street. Our crews are installing around 80 conduit crossings for signal lights, requiring the use of our Ditch Witch directional drills to go under train tracks and sometimes intersections,” continues Fair. “We were able to complete around two to three drills each day at lengths of 50 to 300 linear feet.”

Horizon Underground also works directly for Edison, LADWP, SG&E and the various other companies.

“We are a Veriforce approved contractor enabling us to work direct for SoCal Gas. We also locate utilities, grind and cap, dig trenches, install conduit, backfill and restore the asphalt and concrete at the end of the job. Our services also include saw cutting, striping and traffic control,” says Fair. “At Horizon Underground, we maintain 10 full-

time, turnkey crews. Six directional drill rig crews, two full-time restoration crews and two concrete crews. Our concrete crews stay busy, particularly on electrical jobs where they pour concrete pads for electrical equipment. They also regularly install ADA compliant ramps, curb and gutter, and other flat concrete work.”

Daniel says that each of the six directional drill crews have access to a variety of Ditch Witch drilling rigs, including two JT25 units, a JT2020 MACH 1, a JT10 and a JT28. Horizon Underground owns and maintains various sizes of Ditch Witch directional drills because every job is different, as is the space they work in and around. “In addition to our fleet of Ditch Witch directional drills, we also maintain a fleet of Caterpillar heavy construction machines. These include five Cat backhoes, four Cat mid-sized excavators, and several Cat skid steer loaders,” says Fair.

“We go with Cat for the reliability, extreme raw power, and the consistently excellent service we

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Above & Right: Caterpillar 420F2 backhoe at work and loading discards into the Super 10 dump truck.

receive from Quinn Company Cat and their representative, Joe Schiefer. My brother, Lance and I are both big-time Cat fans, and we have been buying and renting Cat equipment for the past 15 years.

When it comes to reliable service and parts availability, nobody beats Cat and Quinn Company Cat.” Horizon Underground has several other pieces of machinery and specialty trucks in their fleet, including a Rival Hydrovac truck, along with 14 tow-behind vacuum units that are all sold and serviced by the Ditch Witch distributor. Other ancillary machines include units like Kobelco mini excavators, Case backhoes, asphalt rollers, dump

trailers, 10-wheelers, Super 10’s, bobtails, tandem axle trucks for heavy hauling, cable trailers and two larger trenchers. One is a RT120 Hi-Traq trencher that runs a 48” rock saw, another is a Tesmec 220 59,000 lb. trencher, along with several other Ditch Witch units.

Most of Horizon Underground’s day-to-day jobs are from Central California to the San Diego border.

The company maintains yards in Fresno and Bakersfield and holds an Arizona, Nevada and California A license. “We want to continue our growth and expansion into Arizona and Nevada, as we continue working for enterprises throughout the Western United

States,” concludes. “Our future is very bright as we look forward to our next 20 years in the underground construction business.” Horizon Underground was recently featured, and Daniel Fair interviewed on the television show, “World’s Greatest.” To view that episode, please go to www.worldsgreatesttelevision.com/ post/episode-308 and advance to the 21:15 mark in the video.

For more information on Horizon Underground, Inc., please visit www.horizonundergroundinc.com or call their Norco headquarters at (951) 603-0745. Cc

Left & Below: JT operating the Ditch Witch 25 to drill under the tracks and an intersection in Placentia.

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Tom is survived by his wife Margie, two daughters and their husbands, Tee and Debbie Ness, Steve and Chris Perreault, his daughter-in-law Suzy Hawthorne, sister Kathryn Ireland, brothers Paul, Jack, and Gary Hawthorne and their wives, ten grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his wife Dorothy and their children Brian, Bruce, Carol, and Linda Hawthorne.

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