june 2011 NEWSLETTER - Chapter - Society of American Military ...
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<strong>june</strong> <strong>2011</strong> <strong>NEWSLETTER</strong> 15<br />
Under the five-year program, Tetra Tech will provide information<br />
technology support services for the All Weapons<br />
Information System (AWIS), the U.S. Navy’s centralized web<br />
database for ordnance logistics data. The AWIS suite <strong>of</strong> automated<br />
tools is used to collect, track, and report vital information<br />
associated with ordnance performance, testing,<br />
deployment, and operation. Tetra Tech will provide design,<br />
development, enhancement, and maintenance services<br />
for AWIS.<br />
CH2M Hill Construction Underway for Colorado’s<br />
Biggest Water Project in Decades<br />
As much as 100 million gallons a day <strong>of</strong> Arkansas River<br />
water trapped in a reservoir for southern Colorado and<br />
downriver states is about to take a left turn — to Colorado’s<br />
biggest water project in decades. Construction crews<br />
this week began work on the $2.3 billion Southern Deliv-<br />
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ery System. It is designed to pump water uphill and north<br />
from Pueblo Reservoir — through a 62-mile pipeline — to<br />
sustain Colorado Springs, which owns the rights to the river<br />
water, and other growing Front Range cities.<br />
CH2MHill project engineers and construction chiefs at<br />
Pueblo Reservoir in May re-channelled the river below the<br />
240-foot-high dam using sandbags. They’re adjusting dam<br />
valves to dry an area so that digging crews can start laying<br />
the pipeline without relying on expensive underwater divers.<br />
The pipeline will snake from Pueblo Reservoir under a<br />
subdivision where six homes in a 50-foot-wide corridor will<br />
be removed. It must carry water under four highways, including<br />
Interstate 25, a heron nesting area, Fountain Creek,<br />
railroad tracks and several cattle ranches and crop fields.<br />
Access across 175 parcels has been arranged with property<br />
owners receiving about $5.3 million in compensation.<br />
Deals granting access across 125 other parcels aren’t yet<br />
done, with Colorado Springs authorities filing eminent domain<br />
paperwork in 23 cases.