NEWest Construction Company, Inc.

NEWest Construction
Company, Inc.
Installs New Primary Clarifier
at Santa Maria Wastewater
Treatment Plant in Ramona
Written By: Brian Hoover
EWest Construction
Company Inc. (NEWest)
is a general engineering
contracting firm that
specializes in a variety of public
works utility projects. Much of their
work is focused on water and
wastewater treatment plants, where
they install pumps and lift stations,
clarifiers, and high voltage electrical
lines, among other things. They also
offer wet utility construction, including
water and sewer line installation,
and dry utilities such as high voltage
duct bank raceways, electrical
gear install and service, including
Motor Control Centers (MCC) and
Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS),
power plant operations and service.
This is an extremely versatile company
with over 10 years of experience in
infrastructure projects.
NEWest is currently working
at the Santa Maria Wastewater
Treatment Plant in Ramona, where
they are installing a new primary
clarifier to further expand the facilities
capacity. Currently, the wastewater
treatment facility operates one primary
and two secondary clarifiers. The
Clarifier No. 4 Project will add an
additional primary clarifier to better
serve the growing Ramona area
population. On average, more than
8 million gallons of water flows
into this plant each day. The plant
removes the solids from the city’s
wastewater and treats the liquid
to state-approved levels, before
recharging back into the groundwater
basin through percolation ponds.
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Right: NEWest Construction Company, Inc. using their Cat 308E2
Mini Hydraulic Excavator, purchased from Hawthorne Cat, to
install equipment for a new primary clarifier at the Santa Maria
Wastewater Treatment Plant in Ramona.
Below: Cat 349E Hydraulic Excavator, rented from Hawthorne
Rent-It Service, digging a 20 ft. deep and 100 ft. diameter pit for
new primary clarifier.
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NEWest is in the excavation stage right now and
they are digging down around 20 feet and approximately
100 feet in diameter, to make room for the new primary
clarifier. Clem Miner is the Superintendent for NEWest
on this job and he has been with the company since its
inception. As a matter of fact, he carries the distinction
of being the company’s first employee. “Along with the
clarifier, we are installing some miscellaneous piping
and other ancillary equipment,” says Miner. “We are
utilizing beam/plate and lagging on two corners and
then excavating out from there, before open cutting
the other two sides. We are running into decomposed
granite and we require a reliable excavator with a lot of
power to get this job done efficiently.”
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Left: Utilizing beam/plate
and lagging shoring on
clarifier pit excavation.
Below Left (L-R): Billy
Austin, NEWest Construction
Operator; Travis Johnson,
Hawthorne Cat Sales Rep;
and Clem Miner, NEWest
Construction Superintendent,
Below: Aeration basin at
Santa Maria Wastewater
Treatment Plant in Ramona.
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For the power needed to dig through all
of this earth and decomposed granite, Miner
turned to Hawthorne Rent-It Service, where
he rented a Cat 349E Hydraulic Excavator
and a wheel loader. “The Cat 349E is ideal for
digging deep and through the decomposed
granite. It is very smooth to operate and the
excellent weight distribution allows us to
pickup and load material off to the side with
ease,” says Miner. “We are using the Cat 349E
to grub out the material into end dumps and
the wheel loader to relocate the material
to other areas on-site. The combination is
working out very nice for us.”
NEWest Construction Company, Inc.
(NEWest) has also purchased equipment from
Hawthorne Cat, which includes a new 2015 Cat
308E2 Mini Hydraulic Excavator and a 2013
Cat 226B Series 3 Skid Steer Loader. Miner has
known his Hawthorne sales representative,
Travis Johnson, for more than 10 years. As a
matter of fact, Johnson worked for NEWest
before starting a new career at Hawthorne
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Cat several years ago. “Travis and the folks at
Hawthorne Cat have always treated us very
well. You can’t beat Caterpillar equipment,
and we haven’t had much of any downtime,
but when we have needed Hawthorne Cat for
a few small things, they were right there for
us. It is comforting to know that you have the
highest quality dealer with the best equipment
on your team.”
The Santa Maria Wastewater Treatment
Plant project began Sept. 4 and according
to Miner, NEWest should be on-site working
into February 2016. The company works
throughout Southern California, as far North
as Santa Barbara and as far East as Imperial
County. NEWest Construction Company, Inc.
currently has five divisions including Industrial
Plant Work, High Voltage Electrical, Utility
Infrastructure, Pier and Marine Projects and
Specialty/Custom. They are headquartered in
San Diego and you can learn more about the
company by going to www.newestco.com or
by calling (858) 537-0774. Cc
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