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The making of the sewer tunnel 300 feet below Providence: Photo exhibit opens today

7:59 AM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 |
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It's not often you get an invitation to an art opening from the sewer commission. Today is one of those rare days.

Peter Goldberg began photographing the Narragansett Bay Commission's Combined Sewer Overflow project in 2004. An exhibit of his photos of the 3-mile-long, 26-foot-diameter, 300-feet-deep tunnel opens today.

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Background from The Providence Journal's Peter Lord:

· Project to solve much of Providence's combined sewer overflow is complete (with video)

The $359-million project to solve much of the state's combined sewer overflow is finally complete. Centered on the tunnel drilled through solid rock 300 feet under downtown Providence, it has been the biggest, and longest-running, public works project in state history. And for the most part, it has been out of sight.

At 2 p.m. on Nov. 13, the CSO Phase One as it is called, will be publicly commissioned under a tent at the construction site between Terminal Road and Ernest Street in Providence. There will be some speeches and fresh shellfish. Politicians, fishermen, environmentalists and construction workers will celebrate.


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