Construction crews are wrapping up a sizable section of the College Lake Pipeline Project on Bridge Street in front of the Watsonville Buddhist Temple after drilling delays.
Marcus Mendiola, Water Conservation and Outreach Specialist with the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency, said “the pipe is now threaded through the tunnel; we just have about 50 feet left of pipeline to connect from the City yard on Bridge Street to a valve under (Highway) 129, where the metal plates are located.”
If everything stacks up according to plan, Mendiola said, the project could wrap up before Christmas, weather and unexpected circumstances permitting.
The College Lake Pipeline Project is a six-mile, 30-inch water main that will transport treated water from the College Lake facility in Watsonville to more than 5,000 acres of farmland via the Coastal Distribution System, 22 miles of pipelines currently delivering supplemental water (including recycled water) to farms. The effort is to preserve the groundwater resources of the Pajaro Valley.
