April 29, 2020 – Energy infrastructure engineering firm Jacobs has gained a 39-month extension on its contract to deactivate and demolish buildings at a decommissioned nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in New York.

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) awarded the extension contract estimated at $243 million, bringing the entire new contact to more than $800 million.

The West Valley Demonstration Project is a long-term remediation effort at the site which was decommissioned beginning in 2011. Jacobs is leading a joint venture which includes CH2M, Hill and BWXT. Link to article

April 29, 2020 – Jacobs (NYSE: J), as part of CH2M Hill BWXT West Valley, LLC (CHBWV), a Jacobs‐led joint venture, was awarded a contract extension from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management (DOE‐EM) at the West Valley Demonstration Project.

DOE‐EM estimates the 39‐month contract extension modification to be valued at $243 million, bringing the new contract value to a total of $836 million. Link to article

April 29, 2020 – Jacobs (J +2.1%) led joint venture (CH2M Hill BWXT West Valley, LLC) has been awarded a contract extension from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) at the West Valley Demonstration Project. Link to article

April 28, 2020 – It’s a place of superlatives. Reporters have called it the most polluted place in the Western Hemisphere. It’s also the location of one of the largest construction projects in the world.

At the Hanford Site in south-central Washington state, 177 giant tanks sit below the sandy soil, brimming with the radioactive remnants of 44 years of nuclear-materials production. From World War II through the Cold War, Hanford churned out plutonium for more than 60,000 nuclear weapons, including the atomic bomb that razed Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. The sprawling enterprise eventually contaminated the soil and groundwater and left behind 212 million liters of toxic waste—enough to fill 85 Olympic-size swimming pools. Decades after the site stopped producing plutonium, the U.S. government is still grappling with how to clean it all up. Link to article

April 23, 2020 – The Ashford Town Board, at its April 15 meeting via teleconferencing, discussed what the town is doing to help prevent the spread of COVID‐19 and heard reports from others within the town who are also taking precautionary steps.

Supervisor John Pfeffer reported a State of Emergency was declared for the Town of Ashford as of April 15 due to emergency conditions produced by COVID‐19. Pfeffer also started soliciting people in the community who would be able to help deliver meals to people in need, with a number of people who offered to help with various organizations including the West Valley Food Pantry. The town is also continuing communication with Cattaraugus County regarding updates with COVID‐19. Link to article