Bored to depth, light at the end of the tunnel marks the end of a journey.

Don’t be sad that it’s over. Smile that it happened, because Lake Erie will be hundreds of millions of gallons cleaner because of it.

Photo credit Ryan Sullivan, @neorsd.

“Large complex capital projects are not new for us,” said Director of Engineering and Construction Devona Marshall. “But we see every project as an opportunity to be better. All of us — our employees and our contractors together — see Dugway [Storage Tunnel] as the latest example of that mindset.”

Giant shale slabs collapse as Mackenzie’s cutterhead emerges from the dust.
Bird’s eye view of the tunnel boring machine breaking through the shale and into the concrete-lined receiving shaft 220 feet under Cleveland.
L to R: Roberto Bono, Salini Impregilo Lane; Lou Gottardi, HR Gray; Ryan Sullivan, @neorsd Project Manager; Mike Pipenberg, Mott Macdonald. Photo credit Ryan Sullivan.

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Official Medium channel of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District in Cleveland, OH