Rainbow approves MND for Gopher Canyon pipeline

The Rainbow Municipal Water District board approved an environmental mitigated negative declaration along with a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for Rainbow’s Gopher Canyon Water Pipeline Improvements project.

The board’s 5-0 vote, March 23, adopted the MND and the MMRP while also formally approving the Gopher Canyon Pipeline Improvements project.

The pipelines along Gopher Canyon Road and Integrity Court are fragmented, and they have several dead ends which hinder flow between the Gopher Canyon Tank and the Turner Tank. A 1,340-foot segment of four-inch and six-inch asbestos concr...