Recovery Funded Watershed Repairs - Richland Creek Sites 26, 47, 48 and Chambers Creek Site 128

The bid schedule and construction specifications for Richland Creek Site 47 are deleted, and replaced with the sheets from the attached amendment 0002.

Site visit was held 13 August 2009 at the NRCS Field Office in Corsicana, with a visit to each of the four work sites. Amendment 0001 to the solicitation is attached, which makes pen and ink changes to several construction specifications, and answers questions from the site visit.

SITE SHOWING INFORMATION: Date: August 13, 2009; Time: 9:30am CST; Location: USDA-NRCS Corsicana Field Office, 4321 W Highway 22, Corsicana, TX





USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service is announcing a project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. NRCS is contracting for repairs to four Watershed Sites, Richland Creek Sites 26, 47 and 48 and Chambers Creek Site 128 located throughout Hill and Navarro Counties, Texas. The work includes the furnishing of all labor, transportation, materials, equipment and incidentals required to install lime-treatment on both the upstream and downstream slopes of the embankment, and repairing the wave berms. The major items of work consist of the following: preparing the access and campsites; removing fences from the work area; clearing and grubbing the work area; stripping and stockpiling the topsoil from the embankment and lime processing area; excavating the embankments slopes and wave berm; rebuilding the wave berm with earthfill; backfill the embankment slopes with lime treated earthfill; placing rock and topsoil and vegetate the disturbed areas. The lime will be added to and mixed with the earthfill material in a designated processing area.



Range: $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.

USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service is announcing a project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. NRCS is contracting for repairs to four Watershed Sites, Richland Creek Sites 26, 47 and 48 and Chambers Creek Site 128 located throughout Hill and Navarro Counties, Texas. The work includes the furnishing of all labor, transportation, materials, equipment and incidentals required to install lime-treatment on both the upstream and downstream slopes of the embankment, and repairing the wave berms. The major items of work consist of the following: preparing the access and campsites; removing fences from the work area; clearing and grubbing the work area; stripping and stockpiling the topsoil from the embankment and lime processing area; excavating the embankments slopes and wave berm; rebuilding the wave berm with earthfill; backfill the embankment slopes with lime treated earthfill; placing rock and topsoil and vegetate the disturbed areas. The lime will be added to and mixed with the earthfill material in a designated processing area.



Range: $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.



It is anticipated that the solicitation will be posted o/a July 30, 2009.



A Site Showing date/time/location will be posted by amendment to this announcement at a later date.