Army Corps of Engineers Permit – The Gateway Development Commission has announced that the last major step in the federal regulatory process for the Hudson Tunnel Project has been completed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permit issuance for construction within the New Jersey Meadowlands and Hudson River.
The Section 404/10 permit allows construction of the new tunnel within the New Jersey Meadowlands and under the Hudson River, signaling the project’s compliance with the Clean Water Act, as well the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. With this last permit the Hudson Tunnel Project construction can be start once the necessary funding is in place.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit follows the U.S. Department of Transportation’s issuance of a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Record of Decision (ROD) in May.
Supplemental Geotechnical Borings
In preparation for the start of construction on the Hudson Tunnel Project in 2023, critical supplemental subsurface geotechnical investigations have begun on the west side of Manhattan - at Future Construction Access Shaft and Fan Plant Location - to analyze soil and rock characteristics and provide information to engineers about underground conditions.
The Geotechnical Borings are being drilled more than 100 feet underground at thirteen locations on recently acquired property at 260 Twelfth Avenue in Manhattan. The additional borings were identified during a 2019 Request for Information process that sought the input of private industry. Data from the program will inform the geotechnical baseline report, a key input into the Hudson Tunnel Project’s request to enter the Engineering phase of the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Program. The investigation work will be conducted during daytime hours Monday through Friday and is expected to run through early 2022.
A cross section of the location in Manhattan where additional geotechnical borings are being conducted for the Hudson Tunnel Project.
The Hudson Tunnel Project includes the construction of a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River and full rehabilitation of the existing North River Tunnel, more than 110 years after it began service and a decade after inundation by seawater during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The Hudson Tunnel Project will increase the reliability, resiliency, safety and redundancy of the rail infrastructure between New Jersey and New York to better serve the hundreds of thousands of daily commuters and intercity passengers that rely on NJ Transit and Amtrak.
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