The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has given Heed Engineering a contract to construct new drainage control improvements at the Lake Skinner dam.The MWD board awarded a $588,000 contract to Heed Engineering, which is based in Foothills Ranch, during the board’s December 10 meeting. The board also found the work on the existing facility to be categorically exempt from California Environmental Quality Act review.MWD obtains water from the Colorado River Aqueduct which transports water from Parker to Lake Mathews and from the State Water Project which brings water from Oroville to Lake Skinner. Lake Skinner, which was constructed in the early 1970s, is a man-made lake where MWD stores potable water which can be treated at the Robert A. Skinner Water Treatment Plan
