U.S. Army Corps of Engineers award $79.4M contract for Fort Wingate clean-up

Published Aug. 25, 2016
FORT WORTH, Texas - The Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regional Planning and Environmental Center, in collaboration with the Tulsa District Contracting Office awarded a $79,400,038 firm-fixed contract for environmental restoration at the former Fort Wingate Depot Activity on August 19 to AECOM Technical Services Inc., Los Angeles, California. 

The contract requires the excavation and sifting of munitions and debris for 300,000 - 550,000 cubic yards of material at a 32 acre Hazardous Waste Management Unit and subsurface munitions and debris removal from the surrounding 300 acres in Parcel 3 at Fort Wingate. Munitions will be treated by open detonation and/or burning in an onsite state permitted Corrective Action Management Unit. The contract has a performance period of eight years. 

For additional information about Fort Wingate restoration activities, please contact: Steve Smith, USACE Fort Worth District, CESWF-PEC-EA, 819 Taylor Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76102, (817) 886-1879 or Mark Patterson, FWDA BRAC Environmental Coordinator, Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant Building 1037, Ravenna, Ohio 44266, (330) 358-7312. 

 

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About the Fort Worth District: The Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was established in 1950. The District is responsible for water resources development in two-thirds of Texas, and design and construction at military installations in Texas and parts of Louisiana and New Mexico.  Visit the Fort Worth District Web site at: www.swf.usace.army.mil and SWF Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/usacefortworth/


Contact
Clay Church
817-886-1314
clayton.a.church@usace.army.mil
819 Taylor St., Fort Worth, TX

Release no. NR 16-053