Murphy Reservoir Replacement
- Owner:
- City of Whittier
- Location:
- Whittier, California
- Value:
- $6,500,000
- Completion:
- January 2025
- Contractor:
- Gateway Pacific Contractors, Inc.
- Designer:
- Cannon Corp.
- Photo Credits:
- Colin J. Horan Media LLC and Greg Epstein Photography
Butier’s team provided construction management, inspection, structural observation, and materials testing (Ninyo & Moore) services for the City of Whittier’s Murphy Reservoir Replacement project. The project demolished and replaced two 1955 vintage 500,000-gallon reservoirs with a single 2.31 MG prestressed concrete tank, helping the City meet today’s operational and emergency storage needs and tomorrow’s challenges. The new Murphy Reservoir quadrupled the City’s storage capacity, ensuring more water for residents and businesses and greater fire protection for their hillsides. Additional project scope elements included the construction of the following:
- Exterior stairway, interior ladder, access hatches, and vent
- Overflow pipe, drain line, and inlet/outlet line
- Sample taps, level controls, and miscellaneous appurtenances
- Site grading
- Shotcrete and concrete masonry block retaining walls
- Concrete curb and gutter
- Concrete swale for proper site drainage
Please take a moment to watch the highlight reel above to see how the concrete walls were formed for the new reservoir.