Moving Water Industries (MWI) announced that it won a competitive request for proposal and signed a major contract with the Bureau of Reclamation of the United States Department of the Interior to furnish pumps and motors for the Red Bluff Pumping Plant and Fish Screen Project located in Red Bluff, Calif., in Tehama County. The pumps to be supplied will pump cumulatively 2,100 cu ft per second and meet the requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which will provide partial financing for the project.
“The construction of a bridge and siphon to connect the existing canal headworks facilities and the new pumping plant is a significant step toward diverting water in a way that allows unimpeded passage for salmon and green sturgeon,” said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
Completion of this project is expected by spring 2012 in order to meet court-mandated completion requirements and to meet the needs for agricultural water supply in the 18 member Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority, which serves Tehama, Glenn, Colusa and Yolo counties. The canal authority manages irrigation for 150,000 acres with a direct annual economic benefit of $250 million and an overall regional economic benefit of $1 billion, according to Jeffrey P. Sutton, general manager of the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority.
MWI is a manufacturer and seller of extended line-shaft axial and mixed flow propeller pumps, submersible electric pumps and its patented Hydraflo Pump, which can save up to 50% of the cost of installing a pump station. MWI’s Rental Div. has more than 5 million gal per minute (gpm) of capacity available for rent anywhere in the world. Rental pumps are available for quick installation with flows of up to 120,000 gpm.
