A04_-_Clarifier_Pond_Cleaning_SOW.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

Urgent Cleaning Services for Clarifier

Jones Hole NFH, UT

Background:

The Jones Hole NFH is a large cold water fish culture operation working to produce native trout and salmon for the states of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Currently the hatchery has an indoor culture room and 50 outdoor raceways. Both the indoor culture room and the raceway systems flow into a clarifier (see photo next page) at the bottom end of the culture system. The clarifier is required by law and is used to catch heavy solids, fish waste, and unused feed before the water flows into Jones Hole Creek.

When the clarifier was installed, standard operation required yearly cleaning to maintain fish health and decrease risk of unwanted critters from entering the raceways. Over the past 10-years or so, the clarifier has not been drained and cleaned because of low staffing and heavy workloads.

With no yearly cleaning, the clarifier has collected a substantial amount of organic material that needs to be removed.

Currently the hatchery is surrounded by Whirling Disease and New Zealand Mudsnails, both are prohibited in hatcheries stocking fish in Utah Waters. Currently both Whirling Disease and New

Zealand Mudsnails are not found inside the hatchery culture systems. If either of these two invasive species is found in the culture system, the hatchery will be closed, and fish destroyed.

Objectives:

The main goal of this urgent project is to protect and prevent the hatchery from being infected.

With the clarifier being so full of solids, there is large concern that Whirling Disease and New

Zealand Mudsnails will become colonized within the clarifier and work their way into the culture raceways and culture room.

This request is for crane services, specifically a 50-ton crane with an operator, for a duration of 5 days or 50 hours and a dumping skid bucket. The crane will be used to lower a skid steer into the clarifier to collect solid waste, which will then be transferred into a Dumping Skid Bucket attached to the crane. The crane will subsequently lift and empty the bucket into a dump truck for proper removal of the waste.

Project Location at Jones Hole NFH

Project Location at Jones Hole NFH

Clarifier Measurements and Approximant Sediment Depth

List of Objectives

• Provide a 50-ton crane, certified crane operator, qualified signal person (swamper), and a dumping skid bucket to assist hatchery staff with removing all sediment from each cell of the clarifier.

• The crane must be capable of safely lowering a 10,000-pound skid steer into the clarifier.

• Supply all necessary rigging and strapping required to lift and lower the skid steer.

Primary Point of Contact:

Zane Olsen, Jones Hole NFH, Project Leader

Work PH: (435) 789-0351, ext 17

Cell PH: (435) 899-0503

Email address, zane_olsen@fws.gov mailto:zane_olsen@fws.gov

Alternate Point of Contact:

Travis Anderson, Jones Hole NFH, Hatchery Manager

Work PH: (435) 789-4481, ext 12

Cell PH: (435) 299-5158

Email address, travis_anderson@fws.gov

Place of Performance and Period of Performance

Work is to be performed at physical address: 24495 East Jones Hole Hatchery Road, Vernal, UT 84078-

2042, working within the normal working duty hours of 7:00 am to 3:30 pm.

Evaluation and Acceptance

The vendor will be evaluated as detailed here in. Government acceptance is contingent upon: Designated

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Representative(s) determining the work to be acceptable and in good working order.

Quality Control/Quality Assurance:

Where appropriate, QC will be maintained according to industry standards and made available to the agency with the vendor’s proposal. This includes disposing of used parts, fluids, sludge, solids, etc. by following all associated regulations and laws including Federal, State, and County.

mailto:travis_anderson@fws.gov