WEST is pleased to announce it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery Architect-Engineer Contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, Albuquerque Area Office, for professional hydrographic surveying services within the Bureau of Reclamation’s Upper Colorado Region. “The WEST team is excited for this opportunity to assist the Bureau with its hydrographic surveying projects in the Upper Colorado Region,” states Jeffery Budnick, Hydrographic Data Collection Crew Chief.

With a maximum capacity of $13 million over five years, the professional hydrographic surveying services work tasks under this contract may include the development of cross-section surveys, or topographic surveys, of the river channel and floodplains; collection and laboratory analysis of river bed samples, floodplain soil samples, or suspended sediment samples; discharge measurements, velocity measurements, water surface elevation measurements, and roughness calibrations; scour measurements and bank erosion measurements; bed form surveys and bed load measurements; collection of water quality samples; and collection of groundwater parameters. The contract may also include hydraulic engineering design, general engineering design, and environmental services.

The Upper Colorado Region encompasses all or parts of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming, with most work activities expected to be performed within the State of New Mexico, on the Rio Grande, Rio Chama, San Juan, and Pecos rivers. The Middle Rio Grande Project, extending from Velarde, New Mexico to Elephant Butte reservoir, is anticipated to be a focus area for work.