Northeast Boundary Tunnel TBM Naming and Launch
Agenda
Welcome
Remarks
- Ward 3 District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh
- U.S. EPA Regional Administrator Cecil Rodrigues
- National Park Service Superintendent National Capital Parks –East, Tara Morrison
- Chairman of DC Water's Board of Directors and Director of the District Department of Energy and Environment, Tommy Wells
- DC Water CEO/General Manager David L. Gadis
- Mr. Brian Allen (son of Christopher Allen)
Media
- DC Water begins last leg to a cleaner Anacostia River and reduced flooding by naming and blessing the machine that will mine the tunnel (press release)
- Event Pogram
- B-Roll Video
- Photos
- Video
Collateral materials
Previous media coverage
- Why D.C.'s big dig - the $2.6 billion Clean Rivers project - is about more than just sewers Washington Business Journal February 27, 2015
- Inside D.C.'s Massive Tunnel Project, National Geographic, July 3, 2014:
- D.C. Water Hopes New Tunnels Will Make It Easier To Be Green, WAMU, May 2., 201
- DC Water Innovates To Meet $4B Expansion Needs, Engineering News Record, April 14, 2014
- Lady Bird is the 1,300-ton tunnel-boring machine digging DC's 13-mile sewer tunnel, Equipment World, March 19, 2014
- Drill, Lady, Drill: The story behind naming "Lady Bird", Express, March 14, 2014
- An engineering marvel, 'Lady Bird' tunnels below Washington (click link to watch video), USA Today, March 09, 2014
- D.C. effort to clean rivers goes underground, Boston Globe, February 23, 2014
- Deep dig: Huge tunnel boring machine goes after pollution, WUSA 9, February 20, 2014
- You asked for more about Lady Bird, we answered, Washington Post, February 18, 2014
- Clean Rivers in the Nation's Capital, Tunnel Business Magazine, February 17, 2014
- This Giant Mechanical Earthworm Is Fixing D.C.'s Poop Problem, Gizmodo, February 17, 2014
- Meet Lady Bird, a massive machine digging out a solution to D.C. wastewater woes (click for photo gallery), Washington Post, February 16, 2014
- (video) Lady Bird Chews through Potomac River, Washington Post, February 16, 2014
- 8 Massive Tunnels Being Built Right Now, Gizmodo, January 9, 2014
- Go inside the giant tunnel now being dug under Southwest D.C. (Click to watch video), Washington Post, November 26, 2013
- Deep Exploration with Philippe Cousteau, George S. Hawkins blog, October 22, 2013
- DC Water kicks off massive Blue Plains Tunnel project, WaterWorld, April 10, 2013
- DC Water Takes Aim At Sewage Overflows With Giant Tunnel Boring Machine, WAMU 88.5, April 10, 2013
- DC Water tunnel project to begin with completion in 2018 (watch video), Washington Post video, April 9, 2013
- DC's Monstrous Tunnel Boring Machine, Buildings, April 10, 2013
- DC Water unveils multi-million dollar deal to stem sewage overflow, ABC Channel 7, April 10, 2013
- "Lady Bird" will be lowered underground to begin largest construction project in the District since building of Metro System, DC Water, April 9, 2013