The project evaluation team consisting of Directors John Hoobs and Dave Colbaugh, and chaired by Dan Haynosch, CGEA Immediate Past President, would like to thank all firms for submitting projects for consideration. As you can see, CGEA member firms are involved in a number of public and private projects serving a variety of interests. Congratulations to all, and remember, it’s not too soon to get started on next year’s submittals.
2003-2004 Large Project Award Winner
The Painted Turtle Camp
GeoSoils Consultants, Inc.
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The Painted Turtle Camp – is the most recent addition to Paul Newman’s family of Hole In The Wall Gang Camps for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. As the only multi-disease camp on the west coast, kids will be able to swim, fish, kayak, canoe, sail, horseback ride, create arts and crafts projects, and participate in many sports at no cost to the child or the family. Located on approximately 173 acres near Lake Hughes, the camp includes a medical center, 16 cabins for the children and their families, four arts-and-crafts buildings, a dining hall, swimming pool, theater arts center, recreation complex, a new bridge, and various administration and support buildings.
In addition to structures, the project required retrofitting two debris basins with overflow spillway, drainage channel, and erosion control devices, while grading a third basin. A new 180,000-gallon water tank was also built. Geotechnical challenges to the site included the San Andreas Fault zone that crosses the site, sag ponds associated with the fault and earthquake related phenomenon such as liquefaction, surface manifestation and seismically-induced settlement.
The Painted Turtle Camp project submitted by GeoSoils Consultants, Inc. located in Van Nuys was awarded the 2003-2004 Outstanding Project Award – Large Project Category.
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2003-2004 Small Project Category Winner
Wildgoose Pipeline Sacramento River & Willows Fault Crossing
Kleinfelder
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The Wildgoose Natural Gas Storage Expansion project includes 14 miles of high-pressure steel pipeline that will transport natural gas from a major transmission line near Interstate 5 to a gas field near Gridley, California, where it will be injected for storage. Kleinfelder performed an evaluation of the risk to the proposed 30-inch diameter natural gas pipeline due to permanent ground deformation associated with seismic hazards including an event on the Willows fault and liquefaction and lateral spreading near the crossing of the Sacramento River.
The project was presented with the 2003-2004 Outstanding Project Award – Small Project Category.
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2003-2004 Honorable Mention
Monterey Peninsula Landfill, Module 4
Vector Engineering
Key innovations for the landfill expansion included increasing waste capacity by steepening cut slopes and external waste slopes from the existing design grades, mining sand for sale, controlling perched groundwater above the base grade of the cell, designing an engineered alternative for the prescriptive low-permeability barrier layer.
This Vector Engineering project earned an Honorable Mention Award in the 2003-2004 OPA competition.
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