FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
A $5 billion water project could drill through Anza-Borrego park. Is it a pipe dream? [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-CALIF-PARK-WATERPROJECT:SD]
SAN DIEGO — It would be arguably the most ambitious public works project in San Diego history.
The envisioned pipeline would carry Colorado River water more than 130 miles from the Imperial Valley — through the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, tunneling under the Cuyamaca Mountains, and passing through the Cleveland National Forest — to eventually connect with a water-treatment plant in San Marcos.
An alternative route would run through the desert to the south, boring under Mount Laguna before emptying into the San Vicente Reservoir in Lakeside.