After decades of work, the nearly done megaproject will link its new capacity to the city’s 1-billion-gallon-per-day drinking water distribution network
Nearly five decades and $4 billion into the effort to build New York City’s Water Tunnel No. 3, the monumental project’s official end is not yet in sight.
A 1.1-mile bridge carrying 160,000 vehicles per day on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through an industrial district—and over a long-polluted waterway—might not be the first place to look for green design and construction approaches.