UPDATED Media Advisory: Lady Bird Completes Mission—Will Emerge from underground after mining 4? mile tunnel

July 22, 2015

PLEASE NOTE NEW DAY AND TIME
Members of the media are invited to join DC Water and its contractor, Traylor Skanska Jay Dee, as we celebrate Lady Bird’s arrival at the Main Pumping Station. After two years of mining her portion of the Anacostia River Tunnel System, this tunnel boring machine (TBM) will be disassembled, lifted up more than 100 feet through a vertical shaft and brought to the surface. The first piece to emerge will be Lady Bird’s cutterhead, and the face with widgets that mined the 4 and 1/2 miles. Due to the weight of the TBM’s parts, Lady Bird requires a special crane for this occasion.

Visuals include the extraction of Lady Bird’s 26-foot-diameter cutterhead by crane. Also executives and engineers from DC Water and the Clean Rivers Project team will be available for interviews.

Who: DC Clean Rivers Project Team
DC Water Contractor Traylor Skanska Jay Dee

When: July 23, 2015; Setup at 8:30 a.m.
Cutterhead lift tentatively scheduled for window of 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon.
(Note: Please contact us in the morning, 7/23, for a more definitive time. Date and time are subject to change)

Where: Project site is located at the corner of Tingey Street and New Jersey Avenue, SE.
No reserved parking. Please park on the street where available.
Media please enter through the west gate on Tingey Street, on the ballpark side of the site.

Please RSVP to Pamela.Mooring@dcwater.com

Please wear long pants and closed toe shoes. Steel toe boots are recommended.

For more information about the project, please visit https://www.dcwater.com/ladybird.

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