Recent rains buy time for Marin Water to slow review process for its new pipeline

As Marin County’s water reservoir storage substantially fills to over 92 percent storage capacity from recent rainfall, the county’s proposal to build an eight-mile emergency pipeline across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge will undergo slower review processes, the district recently announced.

The district was initially moving quickly in its timeline to consider building a pipeline under the bridge that would carry third-party water sources to Marin. Typically, projects like pipelines or any other construction that has the potential to directly or indirectly physically change the environment must undergo processes in the California Environmental Quality Act.