The Rancho California Water District board awarded HPS Mechanical the contract to upgrade the Joaquin Ranch Pump Station disinfection system.A 7-0 vote November 13 awarded the Bakersfield company a $2,315,391 contract for the work. Although the HPS Mechanical bid amount exceeded the engineer’s estimate of $1,950,000 the $3,250,000 budgeted for the project is sufficient to cover the cost of the contract.The Joaquin Ranch Pump Station in Murrieta is in the 42500 block of Vineyard Parkway. Rancho Water has both groundwater supplies and imported water obtained through the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Rancho Water isn’t a direct member of MWD but obtains MWD water through the Western Municipal Water District).The MWD water is disinfected with chloramines,
