13-Month Delay Looms for Lake Mead Pipeline Completion
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
“Since August, Southern Nevada Water Authority officials have been hinting about another delay in the completion of the new water intake under construction at Lake Mead. … Today, water authority board members will be asked to vote to extend the completion date for the third intake by about 13 months to July 4, 2015. …
“General contractor Vegas Tunnel Constructors needs more time because conditions underground have proved to be worse than expected, slowing progress on the three-mile-long intake tunnel and requiring major structural repairs to the giant digging machine specially built for the job.”
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