Traffic Along Portion of Anza Road to Be Rerouted During Pipeline Installation.TEMECULA, Calif. -- Beginning Thursday (July 28), a 1 1/4-mile portion of Anza Road north of the city of Temecula will be detoured to allow Metropolitan Water District to install large-diameter pipeline. Traffic in both directions on Anza Road between Pauba Road and Rancho California Road The branch of the California Trail John Fremont followed from Westport Landing to the Wakarusa Valley south of Lawrence, Kansas became regionally known as the California Road. will be rerouted west to Calle Contento. Access to property owners and residents will be maintained throughout pipeline construction. Coordinated with the Riverside County Transportation Department, the detour is not expected to cause major traffic delays but is expected to last up to five months for installation of 10-foot-diameter pipeline sections of Metropolitan's San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Pipeline No. 6. Once completed in 2006, the pipeline will deliver water from the Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. and Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern to Eastern Municipal Water District and Western Municipal Water District, Metropolitan's member public agencies in southwest Riverside County. Eastern and Western will in turn deliver pipeline supplies to Rancho California Water District in Temecula, where the ability to store imported supplies in a local aquifer aquifer (ăk`wĭfər): see artesian well. aquifer In hydrology, a rock layer or sequence that contains water and releases it in appreciable amounts. until it is needed will allow Rancho California to meet peak summer demands. The $100 million pipeline will eventually be linked to a southern reach extending into San Diego County. For more information on the Anza detour or the pipeline project, call the project's construction hotline at (951) 926-1501, Ext. 55764. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the largest bulk water supplier for municipal use in the world. The name is usually shortened to the "Metropolitan Water District" or simply "MWD". is a cooperative of 26 cities and water agencies serving 18 million people in six counties. The district imports water from the Colorado River and Northern California to supplement local supplies, and helps its members to develop increased water conservation, recycling, storage and other resource-management programs. |
|
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion