Reclamation awards $75.5 million pipeline contract for Navajo-Gallup water project
GALLUP
The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded Flatland Energy Services LLC a $75.5 million contract to build a section of pipeline that will help deliver water to parts of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.
Flatland will install 10,000 feet of pipeline starting at the Frank Chee Willetto Reservoir 17 miles east of Shiprock as part of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, according to the bureau. When the project is finished, 300 miles of pipeline, two water treatment plants and at least 19 pumping facilities will carry water from the San Juan River to the southwestern portions of the Jicarilla Apache Nation and Gallup.
This section will cross beneath the San Juan River, a major tributary of the Colorado River, and the Chaco River to avoid difficult terrain and existing infrastructure, said Bart Deming, a reclamation manager overseeing construction.
“This work includes some of the most complex horizontal directional drilling installations performed to date on the NGWSP, including the San Juan River crossing and Nenahnezad Hill bore, which includes a 250-foot elevation change,” he said.
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