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Bid Date/Time: March 15, 2 p.m.

The city of Ashland is accepting proposals from qualified firms to provide preliminary, design, and construction engineering services for the development and implementation of the Ashland Creek Restoration project.

Urbanization has caused the creek to become highly constrained. Within Ashland, the creek flows through multiple bridges and culverts, including the Water Street Bridge. During the Ashland Creek flood in January 1997, the Water Street Bridge was a major restriction to flow of floodwaters. Following the flood, the city began a program to improve the flow capacity of many bridges along the Ashland Creek, including the replacement of several pedestrian bridges within Lithia Park, channel improvements, hardening of the creek channel adjacent to Calle Guanajuato, and the replacement of the Windburn Way Bridge.

The Water Street Bridge was reconstructed in 2005 as a single-span concrete structure. Time constraints during the construction of the Water Street Bridge did not allow for the necessary modification to the stream bank. The purpose of this project is to make those modifications to the stream bank.

Proposers are invited to demonstrate their capabilities to perform the following services: completing a complete topographic survey of Ashland Creek; reviewing existing hydraulics investigations and reports; conducting any additional hydraulic, biologic, environmental, and/or cultural assessments; acquiring all necessary permits required; preparing complete plans, specifications and contract documents to restore the flood capacity of the creek channel; eliminating any fish passage barriers and stabilizing the stream banks; and providing all necessary construction engineering services.

A pre-proposal meeting will be held on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Siskiyou Room, Community Development and Engineering Services Building, 51 Windburn Way in Ashland.