Contract awarded by Northeast Regional Sewer District to KM&M/Kenny jv for 4.1 km-long, 6.36 m finished diameter TBM tunnel with cast-in-place concrete lining together with shafts, drop structures and 500 m of exploratory drive. Completion time 4 years. November 1999. Robbins 235-280 TBM ex-Morocco will be used for $51.5 million Mill Creek drive in Chagrin shale at depths of up to 80 m. Machine is presently at Robbins' Solon, OH workshops for major conversion from single shield to double shield and upgrade with addition of a ring beam erector for the proposed rib and lagging primary support. Robbins will also provide new TBM gantry back-up, 900 mm-wide tunnel conveyor, and vertical shaft conveyor. Design by Montgomery Watson with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Dawn Engineering and URS. Visit www.robbinstbm.com and www.urscorp.com June 2000.KM&M/Kenny will install ring beam primary support with meshed crown and timber-lagged invert in 100 Mpa shales, followed by CIP reinforced concrete, internal diameter 6.09 m. Robbins Model 234-280 TBM under refurbishment at Solon will be supplied with backup system, and horizontal and vertical conveyors. Start date late-November, 2000. Visit www.robbinstbm.com October 2000.