{"id":1953,"date":"2020-08-24T21:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2020-08-24T21:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:42:36","slug":"the-central-interceptors-tbm-named-hiwa-i-te-rangi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"The Central Interceptors TBM Named Hiwa-i-te-Rangi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The symbolic name of the first tunnel boring machine of the new Central Interceptor was unveiled: &#8220;Hiwa-i-te-Rangi.&#8221; Earlier, a gathering of students was asked to cast votes for their favorite Matariki star in the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) naming competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMatariki is the M\u0101ori name for a cluster of stars, representing a notion related to harvest, friendship, etc. To make a New Year resolution, M\u0101ori will wish upon Hiwa, which implies &#8220;vigorous growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAfter the the EPB TBM arrival in late 2020 in Auckland, it will run 15 to 110 meters underground between Grey Lynn and the M\u0101ngere Wastewater Treatment Plant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe 4.5m diameter x 13km long wastewater tunnel will increase system capacity to 200,000m3 , and support better inflows to the M\u0101ngere Wastewater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The symbolic name of the first tunnel boring machine of the new Central Interceptor was unveiled: &#8220;Hiwa-i-te-Rangi.&#8221; Earlier, a gathering of students was asked to cast votes for their favorite Matariki star in the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) naming competition. Matariki is the M\u0101ori name for a cluster of stars, representing a notion related to harvest, friendship, etc. To make a New Year resolution, M\u0101ori will wish upon Hiwa, which implies &#8220;vigorous growth.&#8221; After the the EPB TBM arrival in late 2020 in Auckland, it will run 15 to 110 meters underground between Grey Lynn and the M\u0101ngere Wastewater Treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","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\/1953","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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}