Cost for the Big Dig: $14.6 billion (with a “B”). From the Boston Globe: “Artery tunnel springs a leak – Traffic snarled; Big Dig closes lanes, seeks cause, aims for full reopening.”
Water gushed into the Central Artery's northbound tunnel for hours yesterday from a small breach in the eastern wall, backing up afternoon rush-hour traffic for miles and leaving Big Dig officials at a loss to explain where the water was coming from and what had caused the leak.But don’t worry, because Boston officials have high-tech methods to analyze and solve the problem:
Officials and engineers were so uncertain about the origin of the water that some tasted it. The likely source, they said, was groundwater, because that portion of the tunnel sits 110 feet underground.Natch.
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Gee, it's leaking. I'm stunned.
Not.
I've been putting off blogging on this for a number of reasons, but will probably get all my thoughts together in the near future.
I worked for Bechtel on the Big Dig for more than eight years (degree in civil engineering), in varying capacities; as a technician, field inspector and materials engineer to name a few.
I left in 2000 after getting royally fed up with the rampant mismanagement and the political/bureaucratic horseshit that drove the engines there.
So, this leakage story is pretty much par for the course.
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