June 30, 2015

This week, construction crews installed the final segment of the Carlsbad Desalination
Project’s pipeline. The pipeline stretches 10 miles from the nearly complete Carlsbad
Desalination Plant through the cities of Carlsbad, Vista and San Marcos to the San
Diego County Water Authority’s Second Aqueduct.

Over the past two years of construction, crews have worked diligently to install the
54-inch pipeline, completing work ahead of schedule. In that time, it took crews more
than a million hours of labor to install the pipeline and restore local roads – culminating
on June 29 with the installation of the final piece, No. 2177, beneath Macario Canyon
in Carlsbad.