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“Beginning in 2015 residents from several towns, including El Cerrito, Richmond, San Pablo, Berkeley and Pinole, will see the beginning of a long-term water pipeline replacement project.

“The East Bay Municipal Utility District plans to upgrade pipes in an eight-plus mile stretch in four phases, the first beginning in 2015 and continuing for a decade.

“The utility has dubbed the project West of Hills Northern Pipelines Project. Current cost projections come to $42 million. The project will improve operations, enhance system reliability, maintain water quality and meet projected water demands through 2040.

Charles Hardy of EBMUD said the size of the project makes it important for the utility to get the word out early and that neighborhood meetings will be scheduled for the public to review the plans. Hardy said the project will not affect customers e continuing to get their water supplies, but that it will entail digging up roads in residential neighborhoods. November and December meetings will be slated in Berkeley, El Cerrito and Richmond.

“He said some of the utilities’ pipes are more than 100 years old and that when the water utility district formed in 1923 there were several areas where pipelines already existed from previous water agencies.

Read more: Contra Costa Times