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To meet tougher clean drinking water standards, the design of a new system to bypass Los Angeles’ Lower Stone Canyon Reservoir features a 4,300 ft (1,311 m) high-density polyethylene pipeline that runs along the bottom of the reservoir. The innovative solution helped reduce the cost of the project by more than $10 million.
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By Richard Bentwood, P.E., B.C.E.E., L.M.ASCE, a senior project manager of Parsons Corporation, of Pasadena, California; Raul Banuelos, P.E., the manager of major projects in the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP); Paul Liu, P.E., M.ASCE, a manager of water recycling in the DWP; Russell Pierson, P.E., a civil engineering associate in the DWP and the Stone Canyon Reservoir project’s construction manager; Jon Kaneshiro, P.E., M.ASCE, a technology lead in the San Diego office of Parsons; Craig White, P.E., M.ASCE, a senior project manager in Parson’s San Diego office; and Joe Van Ryzin, Ph.D., P.E., the vice president of Makai Ocean Engineering, of Kailua, Hawaii.