The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-01-09
CONTRACT LET
FOR REPAIRS
ON THE CANAL
Warren Construction Company
to Do Work on Cost Plus
Ten Per Cent Basis
ESTIMATED COST s33O,OOO.OO|
Work to Start Immediately and Ex-
tend Over Period of Two
Years

All the repairs and Improvement
on the gravity irrigation system O
the Columbia Irrigation district whicl
were contemplated when bond issu
of $4,000 was recently authorized
are to be made by the Warren Con
struction company of Portland, under
a two-year contract drawn on a cost
plus basis.
The deal, the details of which have
been under consideration for several
weeks, was finally closed and the con-
tract signed late last evening, with
Engineer T. A. Garrow representing
the company and Directors L. E. John
son, II. S. Hughes and Jas. Johnston
representing the district.
The contract provides that the work
shall continue over q period of two
years, this years work being confined
to repairs considered absolutely me-
cessary for the safe delivery of the
present capacity of the canal. These
repairs include half mile of con-
crete lining near the headworks, filling
around flue No. 2, just above Gordon
Moores' ranch, change of line and con-
crete lining to eliminate flume No. 3,
this side Of Moores' ranch, rebuilding
OF the Badger Canyon flume, the re-
building of flume No. just west of
the city near the N. p. crossing, the
replacement of waste gate No. 8 ten
miles up the canal. and the dividing
gates below town with concrete struc-
lures. On lateral No. 2 below town
all Of flume is to be renewed or re-
placed by fill, flume is to be re-
newed and the flume near Puder-
baughs is to be replaced with wood
stave siphon. In addition to these
items of repairs minor repairs on both
the main canal and the distributing
system will be made, including repairs
on fume /, which is to be eliminated
next year.
Next years work will include the
enlargement of the main canal, lining
sections of it with concrete, and re-
building or replacing all fumes not in
cluded in this years work. The total
cost of this years work is estimated
at $l71,089.18, next years ct $780,
aS4.58, making total for the two :
years Of $333,583.76. The estimates
were arrived at by means of com :
promise between estimates submitted /,
Dy z. H. Swigart, consulting engineer
1or the district, and by Engineer Gar
TOW for the Construction company.
The company is to furnish the small {
.ools and equipment, but are to be all !,
lowed $4,000 for the small tools and !
PAID rental of 81, 500 for other equip
ment. 1t is to receive actual net cost :
= tse work plus 10A per cent, with q
penalty for exceeding the final es- =
L. p y 4 "
amates and a similar bonus for COM =
pietlng the work for less than the es- :,
tlmated cost. :
AS a basis for computing this bonus ),
= penalty, definite unit cost for each 1
Asm mas been adopted, that is, so l.
''ucn per thousand for labor, so much !,
- ysf cubic yard for excavation, etc. At :,
:, .,e conclusion of the work, if the actu- y
! .osc mas exceeded this unit cost the :,
tAipany is to pay the district one al
',s1'n d Oh such excess and similarly I,
= 'onlpany is to received one-fourth
80 any saving it may make from the
! a' cost, but in no event is the bonus
e,n peialty to be more than $4,000. Be
m.s se Oh the uncertainty of cost of 81
=. 'srial and labor, provision is made pl
,s.a revision OF the unit costs in No n,
If r =, 1919, provided that the price X
tu.t.. ''er !. material or labor has fluc- M
w., .s 90 and one-third per cent. er
n;d.a, ,n'e the contract is rather a for M
Sn.s NE looking document to the or E.
H. layman, it really means that M
War;. eatlon District has hired the ne
ae NJ, construction company to do RI
unasss. ..A at a specified price, with the tie,
feeivs landing that the company is to of
Sciene, eAtra pay for exceptional eff nu
sciencv = 70 De docked for lack of eff loc
All work is to be done under viz