ESCONDIDO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The robust plan to start rebuilding Lake Hodges dam has come to a screeching halt as a new cost analysis has just jumped from $275 million to between roughly $500 million and $700 million.
Now, the San Diego Water Authority says they will no longer cover their promised half of the repairs, and the City of San Diego is now weighing alternatives to repairing the 106-year-old dam.
“Multiple arches and buttresses, you’re trying to have fail safes where stress gets passed from one area to another, make it last forever, however the ravages of time wreak their havoc,” said Pat Abbott, a geological professor from SDSU…