MWD Badlands Project
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Badlands Tunnel Surge Protection Facility is a major reliability improvement to Metropolitan Water District's Inland Feeder, one of Southern California's critical regional water conveyance systems. The project added surge protection infrastructure to the 12-foot-diameter Inland Feeder to support greater operational flexibility and protect the system during reverse-flow pumping operations from Diamond Valley Lake.
When a 12-foot-diameter regional water line goes offline, every hour matters. A1MI provided project management during the project's critical shutdown phase — coordinating construction activities and the connection of the new facility to the Inland Feeder within a tightly controlled outage window, and helping return critical water infrastructure to service.
SCOPE OF WORK
—Project management during the critical Inland Feeder shutdown
—Shutdown planning, coordination, and execution support
—Construction activity and schedule coordination
—Coordination between MWD operations, construction, and project stakeholders
—Management of work associated with the surge protection facility connection
—Monitoring of shutdown activities, constraints, and project requirements
—Support for restoration of the Inland Feeder to service
Managed construction during a critical shutdown of a 144-inch water conveyance line. Construction activities had to be coordinated and completed within a limited outage window before the regional system – which moves stored water from Diamond Valley Lake toward areas otherwise dependent on State Water Project supplies – could be returned to service.
Coordinated the interface between new infrastructure and an operating regional water system. The new surge protection facility required connection to the existing Inland Feeder – A1MI coordinated the shutdown-phase activities necessary to integrate the new infrastructure while managing the operational and construction constraints of one of MWD's largest conveyance lines.
Brought disciplined execution to a time-critical outage. Unlike conventional construction where activities can be resequenced or extended, a major water-system shutdown provides one defined window to complete critical work – A1MI's project management focused on coordination, schedule discipline, issue resolution, and alignment among the teams returning the system to operation.
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