Chicago Has Drilled 109 Miles of Mammoth Tunnels Underneath Itself [Chicago]

Sep 11th 2010
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Chicago Has Drilled 109 Miles of Mammoth Tunnels Underneath Itself [Chicago] Chicago’s mechanized subterranean restructuring project, TARP (Tunnel And Reservoir Plan), has bored out a giant complex of manmade caverns. The goal? To forestall flooding and sewage overflow seeping into Lake Michigan. The effect? As you’ll discover here, truly enormous. [ BLDGBLOG ]

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