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 landmark agreement between the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation and the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection has green-lighted $3.8 billion in funding over the next 18 years to address combined-sewer overflows, or CSOs.
