After he became a go-to transportation project leader in Southern California, John Rinard made his way around the globe, building projects in South Korea, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Philippines and Australia.
Tunneling through an urban environment like that of Los Angeles is complex enough. Add to that a medley of poor soils (including tar pits); a variety of dangerous gases; and two seismic faults and it becomes a task that until not so long ago was impossible.
All work associated with removal of the first of four hydroelectric dams slated for demolition on the Klamath River in California and Oregon has been completed by contractor Kiewit, said dam owner Klamath River Renewal Corp. earlier this month.
Silicon Valley Clean Water undertook this project as part of a $580-million Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade Program to rehabilitate and convert its 50-year-old raw wastewater conveyance system that was at the end of its useful life from a force main system to a gravity conveyance system.