Kenmore Brightwater Treatment System Update
I recently received a brief update from my contact at King County, David Freed, regarding the progress of the Kenmore segment of the Brightwater Treatment System. At this time, the first tunneling machine has bored one mile to the east of the Kenmore Portal and is just east of the Bothell-Everett Highway in Bothell. The other machine has bored 3/4 of a mile west of the portal. I’ve tried to highlight their locations on the illustration below:
Tunneling, followed by installation of the pipes and tunnel lining are scheduled to continue through late 2010. Mr. Freed knows that I’m utterly fascinated with this whole process, so he was kind enough to provide me (and you) with a photo of a recently completed section of the Kenmore tunnel. This is very cool:
For those of you who are interested in knowing more about how tunneling machines work, just click on the picture below for an animated boring machine at work.
I would like to thank David Freed and his associates for providing us with information regarding this critical project. There are a lot of people working hard to upgrade the infrastructure of the area. For more details and pictures about the project, click on this link: http://kenmore.neighborhoodsundressed.com/2008/06/05/a-good-neighbor-a-huge-project-brightwater/ This is truly important work!
