From @lawhawk:

Unearthing Manhattan’s new water source; NYC Water Tunnel 3 nears completion http://t.co/k8874wXK5j

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 24, 2013

This is amazing:

“For someone like me, who struggles to get to sleep at night, it will be a big relief to have another major artery that feeds Manhattan,” said James Roberts, the deputy commissioner of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, the tunnel’s builder. “Tunnel No. 1 has been in continuous service for a century, and because of that we’ve never had a chance to even inspect it.”

Meanwhile, the problem with Tunnel No. 2, which was finished in 1936, is that it serves only Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. For just over 80 years the fate of Manhattan has hinged on a single, increasingly leaky, now 96-year-old conduit.