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#~/'O:r_ 4.,;,&."" '\ ......' ENGINEEHING .57 BeacJl, and Palos Verdes Estates, together with several industrially important unincorporated areas, was annexed July 23, 1948. The City of Cardena was annexed to the West Basin District and to the Metropolitan Water District December 9, 1948, The terms and conditions of the original annexation included provisions for con- struction of a pipe line extending from the Palos Verdes feeder westerly to Aviation Boulev>Lrd in the vicinit:l' of Manhattan Beach Boulevard, a distance of 6,59 miles. with five turnouts for service to constituents of the West Basin district, At the request of the West Ba"in authorities, an ,'greement was entered into providing for extension of the pipe line to Redondo Avenue in the City of Manhattan Beach, an add itiunal .25 mile, the cost of the extension to be defrayed by the West Basin District, Specificatjc'ns were prepared covering two alternative types of construction for a 45-inch diameter pipe line; (1) lock-joint steel cylinder-reinforced precast concrete pipe and (2) welded steel pipe with spun mortal' lining and machine-placed gunite or mortar exterior coating, The extended portion was included as a separate schedule for convenient segregation of cost. On December 17, 1948, a contract was awarded to United Concrete Pipe Corporation at its low hid of ~1.247.:l60,20 for a precast concrete pipe line. The pipe line extends from the Palos Verdes feeder in Avalon Boulevard weoterly along Redondo Beach Boulevard and Manhattan Beach Boulevard to terminal delivery structures at Redondo Ave- nue, where service connections are provided for the cities of EI Segundo and Manhattan Belich, and for California Water Service Company for distribution in the cities of Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach. Delivery facilities provided initially at inter- mediate points along the line inclnde (1) a connection at Normandie Avenue for service to Southern California Water Company, and (2) a connection at Inglewood A venue for service jointly to Southern California Water Company and California Water Service Compan,', this turnout being designed for subsequent amplification to afford service to A irwa)'s Water Company and Los Angeles County Water Works District No. 22, The plans provide for an interconnection at Normandie Avenue with the Harbor trunk line of the water system of the City of Los Angeles, which will afford limited temporar,' service in the event of outage on the District system. At the close of the fiscal year the West Basin feeder was approximately 66 per cent completed.