19Jul91 UK: REES HOUGH ADOPTS NEW TECHNIQUE FOR CHANNEL TUNNEL WATER RELIEF SEWER.
High water pressure underground at Folkestone has forced the contractor building a sewer to adopt a novel technique for a successful breakthrough as Construction News found out.Tunnelling has been completed on a £7 million scheme to build a surface water relief sewer at the Channel Tunnel terminal site at Cheriton in Kent.Contractor Rees Hough's Iseki crunching mole last week broke through a 232 m head of water. The completed 2.56 ha tunnel runs from north of Folkestone, under ...
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