Snag may delay San Diego Pure Water sewage-recycling project
A major hiccup during the early construction stages of San Diego’s Pure Water sewage recycling system will cost the city at least $20 million — and potentially much more if it delays completion of the interdependent system’s other key components. Constant flooding of a site off Morena Boulevard where a contractor is trying to build a large sewage-pump station has forced the contractor to halt work while city officials make plans to build a large dam-like structure around the area being flooded. The need to build the dam not only will delay construction of the pump station and swell its cost from $110 million to $130 million. … The additional costs may be passed on to the city’s 275,000 sewer and water ratepayers