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Bureau of Reclamation
Number 7
Commissioner's Office - Denver Building 53, Denver Federal Center
Denver, Colorado
July 1, 1957
GATE
The following announcements of major equipment and machinery requirements are subject to revision. Please address the Assistant Commissioner and Chief
Engi-neer to request advertising notices, invitations, bid forms, or other information, referring to the title and number of the item as described in this issue. Asterisks indicate items set aside for Small Business (Section 214, Small Business Act of 1953, amended 15 U.S.C. 643).
BID CALLS EXPECTED IN
JULY
Vega Dam
(7-1)
COLLBRAN PROJECT, Colorado. Advertising notice about July 31.
scription: One 3-foot 6-inch by 3-foot 6-inch and two 2-foot 3-inch by 2-foot 3-inch high-pressure gates, including hoists and transitions. Total estimated
weight: 50, 000 pounds. Delivery date: March 1958.
GATES
Buffalo Bill Dam (7-2)
SHOSHONE PROJECT, Wyoming. Advertising notice about July 31.
Description: Four 4- by 5-foot high-pressure gates. Estimated weight: 182, 000 pounds. Delivery date: February 1958.
BID CALLS EXPECTED IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
CRANE (7-3) - Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming. One 100-ton traveling crane for the Fremont Canyon Powerplant. Estimated weight: 150, 000 pounds.
HOIST, BEAM and STEMS (7-4) - Missouri Riv~r Basin Project, Wyoming. One 14- by 18-foot fixed-wheel gate hoist, beam and stem for the Fremont Canyon Powerplant. Es-timated weight: 35, 000 pounds.
Bureau of Reclamation Advance Equipu1ent Bulletin, July 1, 1957 CONTROL SYSTEM (7-5) - Santa Maria Project, California. Hydraulic controls for four
7-
by 12-foot outlet gates consisting of an oil tank, piping, a control cabinet with an electric-motor-driven oil pump, an auxiliary gasoline-engine-driven oil pump, and gate position indicators for the Vaquero Dam. Estimated weight: 12, 000 pounds. CHLORINATION EQUIPMENT (7-6) - Ventura River Project, California. Four sets of chlorination equipment for the Casitas Main, the Casitas Booster, the Rincon Booster and the Matilija Booster Stations. Total estimated weight: About 80, 000 pounds. BULKHEAD (7-7) - Central Valley Project, California. One 16-foot-diameter, spher-ical bulkhead complete with frame and anchor bolts for Trinity Dam. Estimated weight: 120, 000 pounds.PUMPING UNITS (7-8) - Columbia Basin Project, Washington. Five motor-driven, horizontal, centrifugal-type pumping units, three units each with a capacity of 37 cfs at a total head of 27 5 feet and two units each with a capacity of 17. 5 cfs at a total head of 119 feet for Radar Pumping Plant.
GENERATORS (7-9) - Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming. Two 25, 263-kva, O. 95 power factor, 11, 500-volt, 257-rpm, vertical-shaft, hydraulic-driven, indoor-type, synchronous generators for the Fremont Canyon Powerplant.
TRANSFORMERS (7-10) - Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming. Six 7, 400/9, 250-kva, OA/FA, 11. 2-115/66. 4-kv, single-phase power transformers for the Fremont C~n~on Powerplant.-..;:::;:...::::aa=-
-MOTOR CONTROL EQUIPMENT (7-11) - Ventura River Project, California. Three
2, 400-volt and two 440-volt motor control boards for controlling synchronous motors for Ventura Avenue Pumping Plants Nos. 1 and 2, Ojai Valley, Upper Ojai and Rincon Pumping Plants.
MOTOR CONTROL EQUIPMENT (7-12) - Gila Project, Arizona. One 4, 160-volt motor control switchgear assembly for control of 2, 250-hp synchronous motor for the Yuma-Mesa Pumping Plant.
SWITCHGEAR (7-13) - Colorado-Big Thompson Project, Colorado. One 4, 160-volt switchgear assembly for the control of 4, 500-kva generator for the Big Thompson Power plant.
Bureau of Reclamation Advance Equipment Bulletin, July 1, 1957
INVITATIONS RECENTLY ISSUED
The following invitations for equipment and machinery have been issued by the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Engineer since the June 3, 1957, Advance Equipment Bulletin. They are listed by the number under which the item was last reported in the Bulletin.
FRAME (6-2) - Central Valley Project, California. One 10- by 20-foot fixed-wheel gate frame and one lot of anchor bolts and base plates for outlet works at Trinity Dam. Bid opening July 18. Invitation No. DS-4931.
*CONTROL SYSTEM (6-1) - Missouri River Basin Project, Montana. One control system for two 92-inch butterfly valves for Helena Valley Pumping Plant. Bid opening July 9. Invitation No. DS-4926.
