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April 10, 2003

Giant 'steel snake' lays water pipe

  • Northwest Boring Co. microtunnels huge pipe below the Snoqualmie River.
    • By JOE NABBEFELD
    Journal Real Estate Editor

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    Altering the microtunnel path for a pipeline below the Snoqualmie River allowed the pipe to be installed before a fish-related construction moratorium set in.

    In order to move more water from the Tolt River to the Lake Forest Park Reservoir, and eventually to Seattle homes, the city of Seattle had to lay 6 miles of new pipes that are nearly 7 feet in diameter and made of steel.


     
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