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June 22, 2018

Big Apple has a gigantic plumbing leak

  • Workers are toiling 55 stories beneath the Hudson River to fix gushing leaks in an aging tunnel that carries half the city's water supply.
    • By MICHAEL HILL
    Associated Press

    NEWBURGH, N.Y. — New York City is in the midst of a plumbing repair job of monumental proportions.

    Hard-hat workers are toiling deep underground, 55 stories beneath the Hudson River, to eliminate gushing leaks in an aging tunnel that carries half the city's water supply over 85 miles from Catskill Mountain reservoirs. Using a cylindrical, space-rocket-size borer, they are carving through solid rock to create a 2.5-mile bypass tunnel around the worst of the leaks.


     
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