Renovation of a water / sewer project in Carmel, California. Completed plans call for the renovation of a water / sewer project.

The Rancho Cañada Floodplain Restoration Project (Project) is located on the former Rancho Cañada Golf Club property in the Rancho Cañada unit of the Palo Corona Regional Park, Monterey County, California, along the Carmel River. The project site is approximately 185 acres in size and spans both banks of the Carmel River. The Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District (MPRPD, Owner) maintains the former Rancho Cañada Golf Club clubhouse on the property as its offices, and the facility also functions as a visitors center and trailhead for the publics access to the remainder of the 4,350-acre Palo Corona Regional Park to the south. Immediately downstream of MPRPDs property is the remainder of the former Rancho Cañada Golf Club property, which is now the 60-acre Rancho Cañada Village (RCV) property, a proposed residential development. Surrounding landowners include the Carmel Middle School, the Hacienda Carmel retirement community, the Santa Lucia Conservancy, and a horse farm. The Palo Corona Regional Park will be open during construction, with members of the public able to access the Rancho Cañada unit outside of the public exclusion fence for each phase. The Carmel River runs through the Project site and the Project will involve in-water work. The Contractor and any subcontractors (including trade subcontractors) hired by the Contractor, will henceforth be included as part of the Contractor. The Contractor shall exercise judgement and caution in all areas of the project to follow permit requirements, emphasize public safety, provide superior dust control, minimize noise, protect wildlife and plants, and control invasive species. The Owner will be hiring a construction management firm to serve as the Owners Designated Representative. The Project is focused on restoring a 1-mile section of Carmel River so that natural geomorphic processes will reconnect the river with historic floodplain habitat and create a mosaic of self-sustaining riparian habitat types and instream complexity to benefit juvenile and adult steelhead and other aquatic riparian species. The project area currently serves as a public park and certain amenities/infrastructure are critical for it to continue to function this way. To accomplish the overall goal of the project, the project will remove riprap wherever it is not protecting key infrastructure, recreate historical channel and floodplain features, widen the channel to increase habitat, and add alcoves for backwater habitats. Approximately 40 acres of connected floodplains will be created. These new floodplains will be revegetated with native plants and will require an irrigation system to be constructed. The irrigation system will include replacement of the driving range well pump. Existing large mature trees will be left in place to the greatest extent possible, and existing vegetation that must be removed will be reused, along with imported rootwad logs, as large wood habitat features in the newly created floodplains. Three existing bridges that cross the Carmel River will be removed, with one new replacement bridge added in a location sited to minimize its constraint on the river. Question Deadline 02/14/2025 at 12:00 PM PT