UC Santa Cruz: Long Marine Lab Seawater Intake Repair Wins Environmental Engineering Award

Press release from UC Santa Cruz:

UC Santa Cruz Public Affairs

September 03, 2021

The seawater intake repair project at the UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab was named the 2021 Environmental Engineering Project of the Year for the American Society of Civil Engineers, San Francisco Section.

The seawater intake system can deliver up to 1,000 gallons a minute to labs to UCSC’s Coastal Campus and nearby labs operated by state and federal agencies. The intake structure is located in a small pocket beach and had been damaged by corrosion and heavy wave action. 

The project will be recognized at the ASCE’s annual awards section meeting Sept. 23. It earlier was selected as environmental project of the year by the Monterey Bay chapter of the American Public Works Association. 

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