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The city would shut down. For nearly 40 years, new york has been in the process of constructing a solution. Man this project is water Tunnel Number 3. We started on this project in 1969. Im a sandhog. Ive been a sandhog for 37 years. Narrator sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. They began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. From the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. Ryan you got ...

Everything was dynamite. Now, they have these machines called moles. Its like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. So theres no more dynamite. And its still a rough job, but its gotten to a point where its a lot safer. In the 70s, we lost a man a mile basically. Here, maybe weve had two or three deaths in the last 20 years, which is too much anyway, but its cut down a lot. Hurwitz city Tunnel Number 3 will be an opportunity to take city tunnel 1 out of operation and rehabilita...

Lloyd were targeting a completion date of 2012 for tunnel 3. And we already are starting to prepare to take tunnel 1 offline. Narrator the construction of tunnel 3 is vital for maintaining the sustainability of new yorks Drinking Water infrastructure. But the pipeline is useless if theres not a reliable supply of clean water within it. Hurwitz the city bought up land around the reservoirs to prevent it from development. It provides assistance to local residents to see that theres no pollution of...

As they strive to maintain Water Quality and meet demand. New york is the most densely populated city in the u. S. And over 40 million tourists visit the city every year. The 1. 3 billion gallons of water required every day are delivered by a system of extraordinary scale and complex engineering. Man water is essential to the economic viability of new york city. Reliable infrastructure and Reliable Delivery of water is a must. You have to reinvest in the infrastructure every single minute to kee...

Things corrode, they rust. They get to where you turn them on and nothing happens. But it is so totally used in every nook and cranny, that making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. Narrator two Massive Underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through ...

In the price we pay for water. Man when you take a look at how much people pay for water, as a percentage of median household income, its usually less than 1 . And when you compare that to how much we pay for electricity and gas, cable tv, and internet, the bottom line is, in the United States, we dont pay a heck of a lot for water. Curtis at an average cost of about 2. 50 for 1,000 gallons of tap water, it is a great bargain. Garvin but the rates that are being charged for water are insufficien...

Provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chos...

Well see tom in a minute. Good morning, welcome to news4 midday, im barbara harrison. Its wednesday, march 5th, 2014. And we begin with breaking hill in oxen hill. Angie goff is at the live desk for us. Angie . In the last few minutes, barbara, we learned a lockdown at Potomac High School in oxen hill was just lifted after Prince Georges County police say shots were fired near the school. Now, this apparently happened around 9 15 this morning in the 1400 block of southview drive. This is in oxen...

Yesterday was beautiful. Sunshine temperatures moved into the low 50s. Today will be a little cooler. Not only the temperatures but we will have stronger winds as well. That will add windchill to the air. Right now temperatures arent fwhad. We are talking 40s to start off the morning. Thats pretty good on a january morning. We have 44 right now downtown and 41 at the airport. Forecast for today we are expect to do get into the upper 40s. We are starting off with mostly clear skies. There could b...

Put together a list of who had the best year in politics. For our first 45 minutes we are looking for the same from you. Who had the best year in politics . Maybe it was a figure, a government body. Our phone lines our twitter account is like i said, the National Journal put together a poll. They compiled a list of republicans and democrats asking who had the best year in politics. When it comes to those responding for the democrats, here is the result of their list. Here is what they came up wi...