*Photo Courtesy of the Arizona Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America.*

Achen-Gardner Construction is honored to have won a Build Arizona Award from the Arizona Chapter Associated General Contractors of America for our Salt River Siphon Repair Design-Build project for Central Arizona Project (CAP). Members of the project team accepted the award at the Annual Dinner and Build Arizona Awards Banquet on Friday, January 24th.

This project included the dewatering, assessment, and repair of the Salt River Siphon, one of the largest segmented steel pipelines in Arizona. The siphon spans 8,900 LF underneath the Salt River near Granite Reef Dam and is constructed of 21-foot diameter steel pipe that is buried more than 50 feet below the river bottom. Work during this project was conducted 24/7 and provided the most detailed assessment and coating repairs ever performed on a CAP steel siphon. Click here for more project details and photos.