Atlanta Reaches Milestone On Sewer System Overhaul
A joint venture team finished boring an 8.3-mile, 18-ft-dia sewage tunnel in Atlanta late last month, hitting a project milestone in a race to comply with a federal sewer overflow remediation consent decree. The work is part of a $3-billion, 14-year program to improve the citys wastewater system.
The Sept. 27 hole-through occurred "on schedule, under budget and we have no claimsthe three nicest things you can say," says construction manager Mike Robison of Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Norcross, Ga. "All the drilling and blasting of the main tunnel and blasting for the connecting tunnels is done." Construction of the $130-million Nancy Creek Tunnel is a joint venture project of Obayashi, San Francisco, and CJB Contracting, Atlanta.