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Underground Construction, January, 2007 by Barlas, Stephen
Six hundred construction workers in Rhode Island are digging an underground tunnel 300 feet below ground. With its 30-foot-diameter mouth, that hollow snake has burrowed three miles under Providence to a point near the Narragansett Bay.
This massive project is a holding cache for wastewater that overflows Rhode Island sewers during thunderous rainfalls and is then treated and then pumped into the Narragansett Bay. The tunnel's construction is the first of three phases in Rhode Island's effort to come into compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's combined sewer overflow (CSO) policy, a policy which has bedeviled mostly cities throughout the Northeast and Midwest where sewer systems often claim depression era-vintages.
This first phase will...
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