Dallas, Texas' storm sewers, designed and built in the 1930s, are no match for the dense neighborhoods of a 21st-century city. Despite upgrades and patches applied to accommodate a growing population and storm frequency over the years, floods were happening more frequently, and they were growing in scale. The city needed a permanent solution, so they decided to dig a giant drainage tunnel using a tunnel-boring machine (TBM) named “Big Tex.”
To say Dallas has a flooding problem is putting it mildly. In the last 15 years the city has reported five considerable flooding events in the East Dallas area home
'Big Tex' to Bore 5-Mile Tunnel to Alleviate Dallas Flooding
A tunnel-boring machine named Big Tex is up for the challenge of digging a 5-mile drainage tunnel 170 feet below Dallas, Texas, to mitigate flooding and runoff
Jan 20, 2020 | by Traci Browne |
