On 16/04/2021 the Ship Canal Water Quality Project unveiled the new name of their TBM and it was lowered into the ground in Seattle, Washington.   

MudHoney had the highest number of votes after more than 35,000 votes were cast to choose a name among the top five finalists. The name Mudhoney, comes from the late ’80s, after a Seattle-based rock foursome whose muck-crusted version of rock, has taken a stand against overflows into our waterways. 

This summer the TBM MudHoney will begin digging a 4.27 km-long (2.7mile) and 5,73 m diameter ( 18-ft and 10-inch)  in diameter storage tunnel for the Ship Canal Water Quality Project, reducing  Seattle’s sewer overflow by 2025! 

The Project is a EUR476.12 million (USD570 million) program, being performed by the Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of the Webuild Group. Lane has a EUR212.99 million (USD255 million) share of the project. When completed, the tunnel will prevent, on average, up to 283 million liters ( 75 million gallons) of polluted stormwater and sewage from entering the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Salmon Bay, and Lake Union each year.  

The new tunnel will capture and temporarily hold more than 109.8 million liters (29.6 million gallons) of stormwater and sewage during heavy rains. When the storm passes, flows will be released to the treatment plant. The project is expected to be completed by 2025 and is a joint project between the City of Seattle and King County.  

Click here and us/127 for tunnelbuilder archive.  Visit https://spushipcanal.participate.online/,  http://www.seattle.gov/ and https://www.laneconstruct.com/. 15/21.