Notice of Mandatory Inspection Trip
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NOTICE OF MANDATORY INSPECTION TRIP
COPPER COMMUNICATIONS CABLE AND
VOICE AND DATA EQUIPMENT – MONITORING, TESTING, AND REPAIR
CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT
STATE WATER FACILITIES
DELTA, SAN LUIS, SAN JOAQUIN AND SOUTHERN FIELD DIVISIONS
CONTRA COSTA, ALAMEDA, SAN JOAQUIN, MERCED, FRESNO, KINGS,
KERN, LOS ANGELES, AND
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES
CALIFORNIA
SPECIFICATION NO. 09-02
CONTRACT NO. C51387
A mandatory inspection trip for prospective bidders will be conducted at
the work site. The inspection trip is mandatory for all bidders. Interested parties
are requested to schedule their time to make the trip on the same day. Bidders
will be required to sign-in to indicate their attendance at the site inspection. Bids
will not be accepted from those parties who do not sign-in and attend the site
inspection.
Interested parties are requested to meet on TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2009
at 10:00 A.M. The inspection trip will start at Oso Pumping Plant where
interested parties will meet and travel to some of the various Southern California
Aqueduct copper communications cable testing tap locations and inspect
structures with the cable pressure system and communications systems to be
monitored, tested, repaired and maintained as part of the contract. The
inspection trip is expected to take about 6 to 8 hours.
The meeting will start at the Oso Pumping Plant located in Los Angeles
County. Travel to the intersection of Interstate Highway I-5 and State
Highway 138. Then, travel east along State Highway 138 approximately 9 miles
to the Alamo Powerplant Access Road (300th Street W.). Follow 300th Street W.
north, then turn west onto Oso Pump Plant Road. Follow the road to the Oso
Pumping Plant. A short meeting will be held in the plant; meeting participants will
then be escorted through California Aqueduct inspection roads to Check
Structure 41 and Check Structure 42. From this location participants will then be
escorted along State Highway 138 to the Department’s Quail Lake Outlet
Structure located at the west end of Quail Lake, approximately 40 miles west of
the city of Lancaster. From this location participants will then be escorted north
to the Department’s A. D. Edmonston Pumping Plant, located in Kern County,
California, approximately 30 miles south of Bakersfield, and 6 miles east of
Interstate Highway 5 at the Grapevine Interchange. From this location
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participants will then be escorted along California Aqueduct inspection roads to
Check Structure 39. From this location participants will then be escorted along
California Aqueduct inspection roads to Check Structure 38. From this location
participants will then travel northward along Interstate Highway 5 to a location
north of the city of Lost Hills and be escorted along California Aqueduct
inspection roads to Check Structure 22. Upon completion of inspection of this
site, participants will be escorted from the California Aqueduct access roads to
public access roads and site inspection for the day will be complete. (See map
on following pages.)
Please call the Department of Water Resources at (916) 653-4867
2 days in advance of the inspection trip if you plan to attend or have questions.
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OSO PUMP PLANT
ROAD
300th Street W.
Oso Pumping Plant
VICINITY MAP
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OSO PUMP
PLANT ROAD
OSO PUMP PLANT
ROAD
SITE MAP
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