Washington, D.C.
DC Clean Rivers Division E M Street Diversion Sewer
DC Clean Rivers Division E M Street Diversion Sewer
Location
Owner/Client
DC Water
JA Underground
Contracting Goals
32% Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), 6% Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE)
Employement Goal
51% District Resident New Hires, 35% Apprenticeship Hours for District Residents
L. S. Caldwell & Associates, Inc. (LSC) was responsible for the development, implementation, and monitoring of the Fair Share Objective initiatives for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority’s (DC Water) Clean Rivers Project. This $2.6 billion program was the result of a Consent Decree signed by the District of Columbia, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice. DC Water was required to clean up the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers by 2025. Five discrete portions of the work, called Divisions, totaling approximately $404,000,000. Twelve Divisions were anticipated.
Division E
Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) were diverted from existing combined sewers using three diversion chambers, then conveyed to the tunnel system along M street SE through a series of 48-inch and 108-inch diameter diversion sewers constructed using trenchless methods. The work also included the rehab of selected portions of the Eastside Interceptor sewer (ESI) and the Southeast Relief Water Main (SRWM).
In addition to compliance program development, LSC’s role included:
- Introduction of an online reporting system that tracks usage of minority-owned and women-owned businesses on the projects, as well as online collection of employment data on behalf of DC Water.
- Outreach to protected class businesses is also fundamental to its mission, as is ensuring compliance with Davis Bacon Act requirements.
- LSC works closely with the District’s Department of Employment Services to ensure contractors meeting predetermined contracting thresholds participate in the First Source Employment Program, and that, where applicable, trade contractors operate an approved apprenticeship program.
- LSC has developed and implemented a personnel reporting tool for DC Water & Sewer Authority’s Board of Directors that provides the residence location and work classification (professional, management, labor) of project employees on all DC Water major projects. This data tallies those employees residing in one of the Authority’s User Jurisdictions (Fairfax and Loudoun Counties in Virginia; Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties in Maryland, and the District of Columbia) as well as the state of residence for those employees from outside of the User Jurisdictions. District residents are tabulated by Ward.
