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Metropolitan Water District has announced they will begin construction soon on the first of several projects to bring additional water to Southern California communities hit hardest by the state’s record drought, following a vote the Board of Directors to award a contract for the project’s construction.
The suite of projects will reengineer Metropolitan’s water delivery system to help bring much-needed water from Metropolitan’s Diamond Valley Lake – the largest reservoir in Southern California – to parts of eastern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County.
The $14.8 million contract with Steve P. Rados, Inc. will construct a bypass pipeline from Diamond Valley Lake’s Wadsworth Pumping Plant.
It is the first of four planned projects that will together carry water from Diamond Valley Lake – and potentially the Colorado River – to the Rialto Pipeline, which serves the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Three Valleys Municipal Water District, and Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District.
The project is expected to be completed by mid-2024.
