Shimmick Construction Co. is general contractor under a $373.8-million design-bid-build contract for San Diego's North City Pure Water Facility and Pump Station—a 30-million-gallon-per-day plant that is part of the Pure Water San Diego Program.
With nearly all seven states within the 250,000-sq-mile Colorado River basin scrambling to conserve their apportionments from the river system’s increasingly depleted resources, interest in securing alternative local drinking water supplies is soaring.
The Bureau of Reclamation opened a funding opportunity for project proposals to result in measurable water savings in Lake Mead at the
Arizona-Nevada border, or to add new water to an applicant’s supply to
cut use of river water,