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Either tunnels or storage tanks, or, you know, treatment facilities. The cost is about 3 billion. Lichte if you look at some of the other cities that have gone through this, their rates have gone up significantly. The federal government provides a number of Grant Programs but the bottom line is, you know, its not enough. Theres a massive need of money out there for wastewater and Water Infrastructure improvements around the country. Narrator the struggle for funds is as great in small towns as it is in metropolitan areas. Oberstar the federal government has let down municipalities. The First I...

Failure can have a dramatic impact on the nation, and even internationally. So theres a really keen awareness that you always have to be fixing the system. 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...

And Wastewater Infrastructure systems are actually paying for it. Narrator cities and municipalities across the United States are now facing this funding gap, between projected revenue and projected expenses, 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 an...

And eventual upgrades has resulted in a considerable repair and replacement backlog. Allbee on a national scale, if you looked at what were spending now, and you looked at the additional investment requirements over the next 20 years, theres a 540 billion difference. Man so one of the greatest challenges is to reflect true value pricing. So that the citizens and businesses that rely on water and Wastewater Infrastructure systems are actually paying for it. Narrator cities and municipalities across the United States are now facing this funding gap, between projected revenue and projected expens...

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 chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tunnel Number 2 would be feeding each half of the...