After months of planning to avert a perceived disaster at the LMDT due to high water levels backed up behind a collapse in the tunnel, the end is in sight. The BOR has drilled a hole into the tunnel, placed a pump inside it, and now sends more than 1,000 gallons per minute from the tunnel to a treatment plant before releasing the water into the Arkansas River. A permanent pump has been in place for over three weeks now, pumping water from behind the collapse in the tunnel. With resoration efforts to the pump site and surrounding area well underway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it would seem. But apparently, if that light should flicker, there is no Plan B. 

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