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Photograph: ALL WET Flooded Van Cortlandt Park valve chamber will route system's water.
PHOTO COURTESY OF NYC DEP
THE LARGEST CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION project in New York City's history will reach a long-awaited milestone July 22 when a 12-mile stretch of the $1-billion first stage of Water Tunnel No. 3 is put in service. The remainder of the first stage, a mile-long tunnel from Roosevelt Island to Queens, will be in service by Jan. 1.
The first stage, which runs from Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers through the Bronx and upper Manhattan to Queens, was completed 10 years ago, says Cathy Dellicarpini, spokeswoman for the City's Dept. of Environmental Protection. The city originally planned to wait until all four stages of the 60-mile tunnel were complete before putting it in service, she says. Current estimates are that the work will be...