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Workers replace a portion of the Coachella Canal at the SilverRock Golf Course. Because of summer’s heat, the concrete pours for the newly realigned canal are done overnight. The SilverRock Project involved the relocation of approximately 4,700 lineal feet of the Coachella Canal.
For more than 100 years, communities in the arid, sun-drenched Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles have drawn their drinking water from the 45-mile-long Coachella Valley aquifer that stretches from the Whitewater River canyon just west of Palm Springs to the Salton Sea.
And...