at Little Dry Creek

The Western Canal Water District (WCWD) was faced with a significant safety hazard and regional water flow inconsistencies. Prior to the construction of the realigned canal, siphon, and meter test station, manually operated slide gates controlled the water flow adjacent to Nelson Road. When flooding occurred across Nelson Road the WCWD district operators would open the flood gates by hand. This created a great safety hazard for the district operators and the Nelson community. This intermittent flooding would also disrupt the integrity of neighboring farmers' water flow and the water fowl habitat ecosystem.

To correct the Little Dry Creek water issues, WCWD chose Syblon Reid's carefully selected design-build team of geotechnical, structural, environmental engineering firms, and custom engineering contractor crafts to perform this design-build project.

WCWD credits Syblon Reid with saving their district at least six months construction time on this project.

Technical aspects of this project included:

25,000 cubic yards of excavation

Construction of a 200 foot concrete siphon

Construction of a Replogle Flume meter test station

Demolition of the existing manually operated sluice gates

Realignment of the Little Dry Creek canal