The design portion of Phase 1 just wrapped up and the water authority is getting ready to invite bids on the project, according to Balben.<\/p>\n
While Phase I is starting this year, Phase II is not set to begin until fall 2027 and conclude in late 2028.<\/p>\n
Exactly when in the November 2026 through January 2027 time period work will happen at Site C, near FedEx and the entrance into The Mercado shopping center, is not yet known. That is the period for all Phase I work, which will be occurring at three sites, dubbed A, B and C.<\/p>\n
Sites A and B will not have much impact on drivers. Cole said. They are near the intersection of Bing Crosby Boulevard and Artesian Road in Del Sur and westbound Rancho Bernardo Road, west of Silver Crest Lane, near the Sheriff\u2019s substation in 4S Ranch.<\/p>\n
It is Site C \u2014 at a \u201cvery highly trafficked\u201d area \u2014 that will cause issues, Balben said.<\/p>\n
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San Diego County Water Authority has a Ramona Pipeline vault and valves in this area of Rancho Bernardo Road that needs work later this year. (Elizabeth Marie Himchak)<\/p>\n
Cole said drivers are being encouraged to consider alternative locations to reach I-15, such as via Pomerado Road or Bernardo Center Drive. She added that all the driveways into the nearby Mobil\/Circle K gas station and The Mercado will remain accessible so people can access the businesses.<\/p>\n
Work is anticipated to be 24\/7 for approximately 10 days at each site. Noise, dust and night lighting will be involved, Balben said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work that we are going to do on this pipeline is going to impact the Rancho Bernardo community,\u201d Balben said, adding the water authority wants to hear concerns from the community.<\/p>\n
One of the benefits to breaking the project into two phases is that it spaces out the impact to the community over time. It also addresses conflicts with existing utilities, he said.<\/p>\n
The entire project involves work on 11 buried valves in new vaults, four new 54-inch turnout valves in existing structures and relocation of cathodic protection test stations from their current in-street locations to the side of the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried to design the project to minimize impacts as much as possible,\u201d Balben said.<\/p>\n
Since Phase II is in the design stage, Cole and Balben said they will return to the council with additional details on it in the future.<\/p>\n
The 10 Rancho Bernardo sites in Phase II are:<\/p>\n
\u2022 On eastbound Rancho Bernardo Road, near Arco.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Rancho Bernardo Road (eastbound side) and west of Acena Drive, near The Remington Club.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Rancho Bernardo Road (eastbound) and east of Bernardo Oaks Drive \u2013 near homes in the Seven Oaks neighborhood.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Rancho Bernardo Road (westbound) and Pomerado Road, the corner near the Valvoline Instant Oil Change station.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Rancho Bernardo Road (westbound), east of Cresta Drive, near homes.<\/p>\n
In Poway they are:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Espola Road and Avenida Florencia, near homes.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 Espola Road (westbound) and Cloudcroft Drive, near The Farm.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Two sites \u2014 one at the corner of Espola Road (westbound) and Westling Court. In addition, the project\u2019s proposed staging area for equipment and materials storage is on a big dirt lot on the eastbound side of Espola at this intersection.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Espola Road (northbound), north of Country Day Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late this year, drivers traveling westbound along Rancho Bernardo Road toward Interstate 15 might want to find alternative…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":599214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,52406,258243,80569,258244,3549,17235,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-599213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-poway","tag-ramona-pipeline","tag-rancho-bernardo","tag-roadwork-in-rancho-bernardo","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-water-authority","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116093052899677215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}