Construction has begun on a project to upgrade water and sewer lines serving Liberty Island, site of the Statue of Liberty.The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority provides water and wastewater service to Liberty Island, which sits in Upper New York Bay in Manhattan and is operated by the National Park Service. Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM) was retained in 2012 to design replacements for the existing water and sewer lines, which were undersized and vulnerable to damage.Interruption of service would have required closing the island, which receives more than 4 million visitors per year.The new design includes the use of horizontal directional drilling
Lady Liberty's Water, Sewer Lines to Get Makeover
A project to replace existing water and sewer lines to Liberty Island is underway in New York Harbor
