Site work for a water / sewer project in Silver City, New Mexico. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

Bear Canyon Dam, located in Grant County, New Mexico, is an earthen embankment dam owned and operated by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. Question Deadline 03/20/2025 Questions must be submitted to: karen.wisdom@gsd.nm.gov OSE FILE NO. D-374 Technical Online Bidding Questions: (505) 795-1894 or (800) 233-1121 or you can contact the buyer listed on the ITB front page Contacts Karen Wisdom karen.wisdom@gsd.nm.gov Purpose Bear Canyon Dam was identified as having inadequate spillway capacity to pass the Inflow Design Flood (IDF), which has been established as the flood resulting from 100 percent of the Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP). Gannett Fleming was authorized to design dam safety modifications to Bear Canyon Dam to address this deficiency. The purpose of this Bear Canyon Dam Design Summary Report is to document design analyses, geotechnical investigations and evaluations, assumptions, construction considerations and operating requirements for the proposed dam safety modifications. The report also includes a summary of previously completed observations, investigations, testing, analyses and recommendations to address the dam safety deficiencies. Bear Canyon Dam is located in south western New Mexico approximately 18 miles northeast of Silver City, New Mexico. The dam and reservoir are located just west of the Mimbres River at the mouth of Bear Canyon. The Bear Canyon drainage basin is located on the eastern slope of the Continental Divide in the Pinos Altos Mountain Range. The latitude and longitude of the ctively. Construction of Bear Canyon Dam was initiated in 1935 with the first reservoir filling in September 1937. The dam is owned by the New Mexico State Game Commission and operated by the NMDGF and OSE Mimbres River Watermaster. The dam is primarily used for recreation and irrigation. Figure 1-1 and Figure 1-2 present a vicinity map and a general location map of Bear Canyon Dam, respectively. Bear Canyon Dam can be accessed by traveling north 18.7 miles on New Mexico State Highway 15 from Pinos Altos, New Mexico. Turn right onto New Mexico State Highway 35 and continue 19.9 miles to Bear Canyon Lake road; turn right (south) onto Bear Canyon Lake road and continue 0.3 miles. The dam is on the left. Alternatively, Bear Canyon Dam can be accessed by traveling northwest 2.4 miles on New Mexico State Highway 35 from Mimbres, New Mexico; turn left (south) onto Bear Canyon Lake road, and continue 0.3 miles. The dam is on the left. This alternative route is within the dam break floodplain and may be flooded during an EAP event.