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Construction to begin on new $495 million water supply tunnel in Stanley Park

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Metro Vancouver will begin construction this month on a new $495 million water supply tunnel in Stanley Park .

The regional district says the 1.4-kilometre-long tunnel will replace a water main built in the 1930s .

The existing main, Capilano Main No. 4, is a 1.8-metre-diameter steel pipe that runs beneath the park and carries half the drinking water used in the City of Vancouver .

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