The Provo Reservoir Canal Enclosure Project is ready to go.  The general contractor, Ames Construction, Inc., has received a notice of award and is making preparations to begin construction in late summer or early fall 2010.  Northwest Pipe Company will manufacture the 21.5 miles of 126” diameter pipe at its soon to be remodeled facility in Pleasant Grove, Utah.  The first pipe sections will be fabricated by early summer 2010. 

Some interesting facts about the project include:

• The capacity of the enclosed Provo Reservoir Canal will be 626 cubic feet per second.
• The total length of new 126” diameter welded-steel pipe for the Project is 104,600 linear feet.
• The initial order for steel for the pipe was for 32,140 tons of coil steel.
• The average pipe section will be 40 feet long and weigh 23,200 lbs.
• The pipe will be spiral-welded and welded at each joint connection, requiring approximately 690,000 linear feet or 131 miles of welds in the pipe.
• Each pipe section will be “nested” as it is installed by an average of thirty 100-lb sandbags, with a total of approximately 78,500 sandbags containing 3925 tons of sand required for the project.
• The 21.5 milies of pipe will be bedded by approximately 130,000 cubic yards of controlled low-strength material (CLSM or flowable fill).
• The pipe will be backfilled with approximately 904,000 tons or 603,000 cubic yards of select fill material.