Good news! What goes on beneath!
"... The super sewer has a length of 25 km (15.5 miles). Its main tunnel is 7.2 m in diameter (23.7 ft), the equivalent of three London double decker buses, while its connection tunnels are either 5 m (16.4 ft) in diameter or 2 m (6.6 ft) in diameter. It has a capacity of 1.6 million cubic m (roughly 56.5 million cubic ft), which is a whole lot of sewage.
Construction on the project began in earnest in 2016 at 24 sites around London. Over 20 deep shafts – some as wide as the dome of St Paul's Cathedral – were constructed across the city. Six tunneling machines were used in all ..."
The Tunnel
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