The Venice Yard is one of many yards operated by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Street Services. It is the base of operations for a variety of street maintenance activities for the Venice area and surrounding communities. The yard serrves as the home base for a fleet of six (6) street sweepers as well as several medium and heavy duty vehicles. In accordance with AQMD Fleet Rules, the City of Los Angeles has been actively retiring its fleet of diesel-powered sweepers and medium and heavy-duty vehicles and replacing them with natural-gas powered models. The City of Los Angeles has embarked on an ambitious program to install fueling infrastructure at several City yards, including a CNG fueling facility at the Venice Yard. Initial planning and design for the project began in January 2007, with the Citys Department of Public Works-Bureau of Engineering handling preliminary design activities. A Request for Bid was issued in November 2008 with a contract awarded to the successful bidder, Golden Acquisition Corp (dba EFS West) in march 2009. A pre-construction meeting was held on April 15, 2009 with initial construction activities beginning approximately two weeks later.
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Construction is complete and the project has been accepted by the City. The station is now under a one-year warranty period.
The objective of this project was to provide a time-fill CNG fueling station to provide fuel to eight (8) CNG vehicles. In addition, a limited fast0fill dispenser would be provided in order to provide ""spot" fueling as needed. The scope of this project included: installation of 50 SCFM compressor, gas dryer, storage tubes, eight time fill posts, one limited fast-fill dispenser, and alarm systems, fencing, signage, and emergency shut down devices. In addition, the contractor provided training to City staff of the operation and function of the fueling system.
The station has been successfully constructed and is now capable of providing time-fill CNG fueling and as-needed "spot" fueling to the fleet of CNG vehicles based at this yard.
Gary Lee Moore, City Engineer
City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Bureau of Contract Administration
John L. Reamer, Jr., Director
City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Bureau of Street Services
William Roberston, Director
City of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power
Austin Beutner, General Manager
City of Los Angeles Department of Building & Safety
Robert Bud Ovrom, General Manager
Golden Acquisition Corp. (dba EFS West)
General Contractor
Gladstein, Neandross, and Associates
Project Consultant