Mokelumne Aqueduct, California
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The East Bay Municipal Utility District provides water to 1.3 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area via a network of reservoirs, aqueducts, treatment plants and other distribution facilities. The main source of water is the Pardee Reservoir in the Mokelumne River watershed. The Mokelumne Aqueduct System includes three parallel elevated steel pipelines, which carry water from from the Pardee Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills to storage reservoirs near Oakland. Aqueduct #1 is 61 inches in diameter, Aqueduct #2 has a diameter of 67 inches, and Aqueduct #3 is the largest with a diameter of 87 inches. Abhe & Svoboda, Inc. abrasive blasted 2.5 miles of the failing coating on Aqueduct #2 using a recyclable steel grit. |
