TORRINGTON – The Goshen Irrigation District (GID) will hold a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday, Oct. 28 for the first of two Fort Laramie canal tunnel reconstruction projects.
The public is invited to meet at 10 a.m. at the GID offices in Torrington for a project briefing. An hour later, attendees will gather at the entrance of Tunnel No. 2 for on-site remarks and the groundbreaking.
GID President Shawn Booth will deliver remarks along with representatives from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and other local and state representatives.
The groundbreaking will kickoff the project as work commences on the portals of Tunnel #1 and Tunnel #2 by Mountain View Building, Inc. of Sheridan, Wyoming.
Tunnel 2 collapsed July 17, 2019, ending water deliveries until emergency repairs were completed Aug. 28, 2019. Post-repair water flows ran at a much-reduced rate. Combined with more than a month without irrigation water, the disruption cost downstream agricultural producers much, if not all, of their crops during the growing season.
