EMWD, City say Murrieta Road to reopen next week
Dark blue line shows the route of the EMWD pipeline. Yellow lines show alternate routes south to Newport Road. By Doug Spoon, Editor ...
Dark blue line shows the route of the EMWD pipeline. Yellow lines show alternate routes south to Newport Road.
By Doug Spoon, Editor
The first phase of a water pipeline project that has impacted traffic on Murrieta Road in Menifee for five months is nearing completion, allowing the road to reopen next week, authorities said.
A stretch of Murrieta Road at Salt Creek – an important north/south route to and from the Sun City community – has been partially closed since May. Southbound traffic was blocked off and northbound traffic was restricted to one slow lane while crews worked to construct a 36-inch pipeline from the Eastern Municipal Water District Desalination Complex just north of Salt Creek that will run south under the creek bed and along Murrieta Road to connect with existing infrastructure at La Piedra Road.
Resulting detours for southbound motorists have resulted in complaints from residents. EMWD Kevin Pearson acknowledged those concerns in an email to Menifee 24/7 this week.
“We do sincerely appreciate the patience of our neighbors in this area as we work to finish this project that will help us ensure long-term water supply reliability to the area,” Pearson said. “EMWD has been proactive in communicating with the residents in this area, including our anticipation that the bridge would be open in mid-October.
“We now fully expect the bridge will be reopened next week. The road will be open to both north and south-bound traffic, but construction will continue in the area as we install pipe to La Piedra.”
For updates, visit emwd.org/MurrietaRoad. For questions, please contact Don Sharp,
Construction Manager, at 951-723-3726 or at dsharp@cityofmenifee.us.
EMWD officials broke ground for the Desalination Complex at Murrieta Road and Salt Creek in March of 2019. Officially called the Perris II Reverse Osmosis Treatment Facility, it will increase the amount of drinkable water to area residents by removing salt from brackish groundwater basin water and exporting the salt through a regional brine line.
Bridge? Obviously Mr Pearson has never been there or he would know that it an inadequate cart path through a ditch.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly the project was supposed to be finished already. Contracts like this should have liquidated damages clauses in order to get the contractors to try to finiish on time when there is a major disruption to the general public.
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