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General Information

Contractor Work Hours
7 am. – 6 pm, Monday-Friday

Construction Timeframe
January 2007 – November 2009

Contact
(916) 420-8067
construction@frwa.com

You can view slideshows of the Intake Facility construction here

About Intake Facility

The new water intake facility and pumping plant located on the Sacramento River, upstream of the town of Freeport, will divert water and pump it through pipelines to other FRWP facilities. Eight vertical turbine pumps with 2,000 horsepower electric induction motors will have the capacity to pump up to 185 mgd of water per day. Components of the facility include an in-river intake fish screen, sheet-piled in-river transition structure, electrical substation, surge control facility, compressed air system, sediment collection and settling basin system, and utilities. FRWA has constructed a slurry wall on the levee in order to strengthen the levee near the South Pocket neighborhood, in advance of scheduled levee improvements by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A landscaped buffer is being maintained between homes adjacent to the facility property and the structures. FRWA has commissioned a regional artist to construct an art and poetry wall on the front of the intake facility structure.

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