A new tunnel to deliver water to portions of New York City is about to start working.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is announcing Wednesday that the Manhattan section of Water Tunnel 3, one of the largest infrastructure projects in city history, is competed.
It will now provide 350 million gallons of water a day to the borough, easing the strain on the two existing tunnels. They were built in 1917 and 1936 respectively.
Bloomberg will officially turn on the 8.5-mile section of tunnel at City Hall Park. He says the drinking water that flows through the new tunnel will not taste different.
Construction on Water Tunnel 3 began in 1970 and has cost $4.7 billion. The entire project, which will reach into Brooklyn and Queens, is slated for completion in 2021.
(AP)
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Has any one asked from the engineers if this water tunnel has the same problem that the Brooklyn tunnel has, where the intake is near the bottom causing the water kashrus problem.