DC Water Christens TBM “Lady Bird”

April 18, 2013 rockman Project Related Comments Off on DC Water Christens TBM “Lady Bird”
Lady Bird, the new TBM that will tunnel under the Potomac River for DC Water

Lady Bird, the new TBM that will tunnel under the Potomac River for DC Water

The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) recently christened a new Tunnel Boring Machine ‘Lady Bird’ in honor of former first lady Claudia Alta ‘Lady Bird’ Taylor Johnson. The roughly 23-ft diameter TBM will tunnel a total of over 24,000 feet at a depth of 100 feet below the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers as part of a DC Water project aimed at reducing combined sewer outfalls. I first posted about this project, including a Google Map of the route a few years back. [Source: More at Tunnel Business Magazine. Image: Tunnel Business Magazine]

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