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Water tunnel in San Bernardino nears completion

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The Inland Feeder Project, a 44-mile pipeline project to connect the California Aqueduct to the Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir in Riverside, is seeing light at the end of a two-decade tunnel.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California jokes that the $1.2-billion project suffered everything but a plague of locusts. Still, the agency insisted it needed the high-capacity system to bring water from Northern California.

Now the project is close to done with its last bit of tunneling: a four-mile stretch in the San Bernardino Mountains known as the Arrowhead West Tunnel.

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