> A quite a bit less than $250million, which is how much is being paid. That idea was made up in this thread, it doesn't reflect reality. The cost overrun was

> A quite a bit less than $250million, which is how much is being paid. That idea was made up in this thread, it doesn't reflect reality. The cost overrun was explained in the article as due to only scoping out 30% of the project as part of making the bid, and as such underestimating how much concrete they would need: > Jeff Petersen, project manager for Kiewit, said that once construction workers got on the site they discovered they had to dig much deeper to get down to bedrock than they had expected. That meant they are having to pour almost twice as much concrete this year — 870,000 cubic yards — as the company and the Department of Water Resources had planned.