Blog: Revised Capital Cost for 3,000 cfs Single Bore Tunnel
From the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) Blog, in a post by Richard Stapler, California Natural Resources Agency:
“The Department of Water Resources has revised its estimate of the cost to construct a 3,000 cubic-feet-per-second, single bore tunnel that some stakeholders have proposed be incorporated into proposals to restore the ecosystem and water supply reliability in the Delta. In 2012 dollars, that capital cost of such a facility is estimated at $8.6 billion. This cost also reflects the change in tunnel alignment to reduce impacts on local communities in the Delta announced in August of 2013.”