Description
The County of Riverside Department of Waste Resources is seeking bids from qualified firms to provide paleontology resource monitoring services for the Badlands Landfill Integrated Project. The project involves the expansion of the Badlands Landfill to provide additional disposal capacity and facilitate landfill and waste diversion activities. The selected vendor will be responsible for providing a paleontological resource monitoring services in compliance with mitigation measures outlined in the adopted California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) document for the project. The scope of work includes tasks such as meetings, project-specific PRIMP, paleontological resources awareness training, specimen repository agreement, earth excavation monitoring, salvage of fossils, fossils management, and compliance report.
• The project is located at the Badlands Landfill property, owned by the County of Riverside.
• The project area is within the larger 1,168-acre landfill property.
• The selected vendor will be required to provide a Lead Paleontological Monitor (LPM) for the entire earth excavation monitoring process.
• The vendor will be responsible for collecting standard samples of fossiliferous sediments at paleosol horizons and localities to identify and recover small vertebrate remains and micro-vertebrate fossils.
• The vendor will be required to prepare a master catalog of discoveries and records from the project and submit it to the local museum repository and the Department.