City Council awards engineering contract for Lopes Road

In mid-March 2023, the hillside west of Lopes Road became saturated from the series of winter rainstorms, causing a failure in Lopes Road that broke the City of Benicia's water supply line and other underground utilities. Since then, both cities have been working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and California Office of Emergency Services (Cal-OES) to receive financial support through public assistance grants.

On February 6, 2024, the Fairfield City Council awarded a design services contract to assemble engineering documents for permanent restoration of Lopes Road to Dewberry. Dewberry will also assist the City with project management and compliance with FEMA and Cal-OES grant funding requirements. Over the next several weeks, Dewberry will be conducting field investigations to validate pre-design work that began in January 2024. Additional field investigations will include land surveying, underground utility identification, and installation of additional temporary and permanent hillside monitoring wells.

For more information on the project, please visit https://www.fairfield.ca.gov/lopes.

For more information on the public assistance grant process, please visit https://www.fema.gov/assistance/public/process.