Ambitious Tunneling Project Saves Nature Preserve

Instead of tearing apart a wilderness area by trenching, a creative solution achieved lofty goals for the city of Clifton, New Jersey, when it set out to relocate a failing sewer line

Ambitious Tunneling Project Saves Nature Preserve

(Photo credit Jon Grove/Friends of Bonsal Preserve)

It would have been easy to trench in a new gravity sewer line, replacing the failing pipe in the heart of New Jersey’s Alonzo F. Bonsal Preserve. It also would have devastated the state-designated wilderness area.

But there were few options, and the city of Clifton was ready to...

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