Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation (AGI), Water Infrastructure and Operations Branch, owns and operates various types of complex water management projects, throughout Central Alberta that include high consequence embankment dams, multi-use pumping projects, water retention control outlet structures as well as water conveyance projects. These projects cover a wide geographical area in Central Alberta and are operated and maintained to provide important municipal water supply, mitigate flooding and drought, and provide agricultural back-flooding for local producers. The systems must be maintained, operated, and monitored to a high standard with efficient delivery of discretionary, high priority maintenance and repair functions. Water Infrastructure and Operations Branch (WIOB) requires a general contractor that can deliver a wide array of specialized maintenance services, labour, and equipment in a timely manner, to meet some of the complex operational and maintenance requirements of these diverse water management projects. These activities could include, but are not limited to: • Provide responsive maintenance services to address and reduce risks associated with high consequence dams, canals, and outlet structures. These activities include heavy earthworks, aggregate placement for erosion protection, slope repairs, drainage improvements, bank stabilization with direct public safety risks, and reducing flow restrictions. • Provide responsive measures to flow restrictions that occur within the Central Operations. Types of restrictions could include beaver dams, debris piles, aquatic vegetation, silt removal, etc. These restrictions are overcome through the use of specialized cutting equipment, heavy equipment, or in some cases by manual labour. • Provide timely, effective in-stream work activities that comply with regulatory requirements under the Water Act and Fisheries Act. Central Operations have developed an instream work template that satisfies codes of practice and mitigates undesired outcomes connected with in-stream activities. The activities that will be undertaken are erosion repairs or silt removal. • General labor services. • Provide cost estimates or technical advice concerning the above work.
