Fugro West, Inc. in Ventura, California, has been awarded a contract with the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County to provide geological and geotechnical engineering services for design of the proposed Joint Water Pollution Control Plant (JWPCP) Tunnel and Ocean Outfall project. The project duration will be about six years, and the total contract value is estimated at USD 26 million (EUR 20 million).
The project will include onshore and offshore geophysical surveys and geotechnical explorations, geotechnical and earthquake consulting. The Districts are planning to construct a new tunnel and ocean outfall to serve a large portion of metropolitan Los Angeles County.
The proposed outfall will extend from the Districts’ regional wastewater treatment facilities in Carson, California, to a discharge location in about sixty to ninety metres water depth on the continental shelf. The proposed six metres-diameter tunnel outfall will be up to twenty kilometres long and pass at depths of up to about hundred metres below ground surface within an area of active faulting and complex geology. Possible alignments pass under some of the country’s most densely populated urban areas, and may trend beneath the Port of Los Angeles, which is one of the world’s busiest ports.
The contract will be awarded in two phases, feasibility and design. | 
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