Department of Water Resources, On-Call Land Surveying Services

Guida is providing statewide on-call land surveying services to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) Survey Branch on projects associated with large hydroelectric pumping and generation plants; large diameter pipelines; dams; reservoirs; water conveyance related structures and buildings; environmental mitigation, restoration, and enhancement facilities; flood protection facilities, land subsidence; dredging and sediment removal; aqueducts; levees; roads; bridges; multi-purpose buildings; and fish passage structures. The services required under this contract cover a broad spectrum of both traditional land surveying services along with innovative technologies and solutions such as hydrographic, LiDAR, and UAV surveys.

This on-call is challenging due to the nature of a large service territory and vast scope of work. Guida, along with our subconsultant teaming partners, has proven experience of being a well-managed, cohesive team that covers DWR’s entire service area and the vast scope of work, practicing open and frequent communication, providing the ability to easily access cloud-based systems, and adhering to a rigorous quality control process.

Emergency Response Services:
Guida can provide surveying and mapping services typically within 24 to 48 hours; however, when necessary, we are able to respond more quickly, sometimes in as little as 2 to 4 hours. Recently, under our current DWR On-Call Land Surveying Services contract, the Guida team was asked to respond to an urgent request to provide UAV night vision imagery at the Oroville Dam to being monitoring the water intakes at Lake Oroville during the overnight hours. The request was received on Tuesday at noon and the team was able to be on-site providing the imagery by 10pm that evening and continued to provide imagery for the next 6 evenings as requested by DWR and the Lake Oroville Dam team.