Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 02, 2023
Cleveland's $3B Project Clean Lake Features Large-Scale Storage Tunnels
Designed to reduce pollution in Lake Erie by four billion gallons per year, Project Clean Lake is a 25-year plan being overseen by Cleveland's Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD). When construction crews complete the $3 billion undertaking in 2036, 98 percent of flows entering the combined system will be fully treated at the agency's three wastewater treatment plants....
Komatsu - Mon July 11, 2022
Komatsu, Codelco Agree to Conduct Trial of New Mining Tunnel Boring Machine
Komatsu Ltd. , through its subsidiary Komatsu Cummins Chile Ltda., has agreed with Codelco, a major state-owned mining company in Chile, to collaborate on trialing a new tunnel excavation method using Komatsu's newly developed mining tunnel boring machine (TBM) starting in 2024 at Codelco's Chuquicamata Mine in Chile....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed November 17, 2021
SSC Underground, Coffman Specialties Take On Massive Boring Project
Cave Buttes Dam is an earthen flood control dam built on Cave Creek Wash in northern Phoenix, Ariz. The dam was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1980 with the Flood Control District of Maricopa County serving as the local sponsor....
Fort Wayne Tunnel - Tue August 03, 2021
MamaJo Breaks Through On Deep Rock Tunnel Project
Pounding through nearly 5 mi. of bedrock over three years, MamaJo, the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), called it a day June 30, 2021. Mayor Tom Henry joined dozens of neighborhood leaders, tunnel and utility workers, and city council members to celebrate the deep rock tunnel milestone....
Fermilab - Wed June 09, 2021
Crews Start Lowering Equipment for DUNE Excavation
The Fermilab-hosted Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is an enormous international scientific effort. More than a thousand researchers aim to shed light on elusive subatomic particles known as neutrinos — and possibly the nature of matter itself....
Lane Construction - Thu May 13, 2021
Excavation Complete on NEBT Project in Washington, D.C.
Excavation of the Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT) in Washington, D.C., a joint-venture project valued at $580 million being constructed by The Lane Construction Corporation and its parent company, Webuild Group (formerly Salini Impregilo), is complete....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 20, 2021
Eliza Digs Along Michigan's $162M I-75 Modernization Project
An innovative $162 million tunnel boring project is well under way with construction crews mining the tunnel as others work to attach the remainder of a 400-ft. long train. The tunnel is part of the I-75 Modernization plan, the largest project in size and scope the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has tackled, which includes the replacement of 47 bridges, including 41 vehicular and six pedestrian bridges, as well as the replacement of two cloverleaf interchanges with diverging diamond interchanges....
Eastern Shore Post - Mon December 28, 2020
Virginia Tunnel Boring Continues, Completion Pushed to 2024
Construction continues on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel's first parallel tunnel, near the Virginia Beach side of the bridge, with projected completion in 2024, two years later than originally estimated....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed September 02, 2020
'Bumblebee' Knocks Out Tunnel for $200M Louisville Project
As work on a unique $25 million pump station wraps up, a boring machine dubbed "Bumblebee" continues carving out a 4-mi., 18-story deep tunnel in Louisville, Ky. It's all part of the Louisville/Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District's (MSD) $200 million project to help prevent wastewater and stormwater from overflowing into the Ohio River during periods of heavy rain....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Tue September 01, 2020
Indiana's Midwest Mole: 'Legacy to the Future'
For nearly 40 years, Midwest Mole Inc. has forged a reputation as a premiere specialty underground contractor providing boring, tunneling and directional drilling throughout the Midwest, more recently expanding its territory to the east coast, as well as to other cities throughout the country as opportunities develop....
