{"id":1839,"date":"2020-08-04T20:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2020-08-04T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:04:17","slug":"united-utilities-tbm-progressing-under-m65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"United Utilities TBM progressing under M65"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boring a new wastewater pipeline beneath the M65 motorway at Darwen in Lancashire, northern England has been started by United Utilities, the UK water services provider. The project forms part of the \u00a3150m Blackburn and Darwen wastewater upgrade program.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1.8m-diameter TBM is expected to take nearly eight weeks to complete its bore, having been lowered by crane into the launch shaft just off the M65 on 27 July 2020. The 23t laser-guided machine is being driven from the surface by LiMA (main contractor) \u2013 a trading brand of Laing O\u2019Rourke which forms (along with Atkins) the Joint Venture that was awarded the project in December 2017.<\/div>\n<div>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1839 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_02-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_02-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_03-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_03-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_04.1-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_04.1-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_06-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_06-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_07-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_07-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_01-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020_blackburn_01-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The TBM is boring a 270m-long tunnel, mining at depths of about 16m below the motorway. The tunnel will form part of the 1.6 km pipeline which is laid between the Blackburn and Darwen wastewater treatment works.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project intends to improve local watercourses that are tributaries of the River Darwen which feeds into the River Ribble. It is foreseen that the project will also help improving bathing water quality along the Fylde coast.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The installation at Blackburn of Nereda technology, hailed as a \u2018significant and evolutionary step in wastewater treatment\u2019, is an essential element of the project.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is expected to have the project operational by 2021.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Tunnels and Tunneling<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boring a new wastewater pipeline beneath the M65 motorway at Darwen in Lancashire, northern England has been started by United Utilities, the UK water services provider. The project forms part of the \u00a3150m Blackburn and Darwen wastewater upgrade program. The 1.8m-diameter TBM is expected to take nearly eight weeks to complete its bore, having been lowered by crane into the launch shaft just off the M65 on 27 July 2020. The 23t laser-guided machine is being driven from the surface by LiMA (main contractor) \u2013 a trading brand of Laing O\u2019Rourke which forms (along with Atkins) the Joint Venture that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}