Sunday 22 April 2012

Meet 'Pat', The Drill That'll Dig A New Underwater Tunnel From Staten Island To Brooklyn [Infrastructure]

New York City's newest toy, a 110-ton, 300-foot-long Caterpillar boring machine named "Pat," will soon spearhead a $250 million water tunnel project. Digging a 12-foot diameter tunnel almost two miles long, Pat will create the replacement for two other, shallower tunnels currently in the way of expanding the port city's shipping capacity. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~3/TU3suOelNto/meet-pat-the-drill-thatll-dig-a-new-underwater-tunnel-from-staten-island-to-brooklyn

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