The City of Bend, Ore., is currently in the middle of the Bridge Creek pipeline project – literally. After months of legal challenges, the city’s Engineering & Infrastructure Planning Department has begun work on the central 8-mile section of a 10-mile, $24 million pipeline project designed to transport mountain water downhill from Bridge Creek in the west through the Deschutes National Forest.Bend is located roughly in the center of Oregon and its population is approaching 80,000, an increase of almost 50 percent in a little more than a decade. The water project will replace critical end-of-life infrastructure that dates back
