The City of Minneapolis Public Works Department has an ambitious new plan for a large-diameter water main that is currently suspended from the 10th Avenue Bridge spanning the Mississippi River. They’re going to reroute it under the river.
The $24 million project might sound pretty run-of-the-mill until you understand how they are doing it.
Peter Pfister, professional engineer, and project manager for the Water Treatment and Distribution Division of Public Works, says that it’s an incredibly interesting project, and one that engineers in his position do not often get the chance to be involved in.
A microtunneling technique
