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Kiewit orchestrated a massive amount of resources, manpower and logistics to rebuild both Oroville Dam spillways. Teamwork made it happen.
TEAMWORK IS KEY
The Oroville Spillway Emergency Recovery Proj- ect was a huge beast. And it never would have hap- pened without teamwork from everyone involved. “What pulled it all together for us was Peterson working as a whole,” says Taylor. “There was a lot of coordination between stores—everyone work- ing together to make this all work. No one store could have done it by themselves. It was definitely a team effort.”
Kiewit’s contract ended up with a final price tag of just over $650 million. “It was the biggest, fast- est paced job I’ve ever been on,” says Whelan, who headed up Kiewit’s mobilization and demobiliza- tion efforts. By the end of 2019, Kiewit was wrap- ping up the final details. New roads were paved, trees and grass planted, a new boat launch was in. Anyone standing on the observation deck at the
Lake Oroville Visitor Center would not be able to tell what had happened there back on that rainy day in February 2017.
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