He breached the Assyrian siege by digging his famous water tunnel under the city.
Even on a dry day, the MTA's 300 pumping rooms remove an estimated 13 million gallons of water from the tunnel network, just to keep the system dry enough to run.
Engineers have now pumped out the water and can now get to the tunnel beneath and renovate the tunnels.
The Hugh L. Carey Tunnel is flooded from end to end and the Queens Midtown Tunnel also took on water and was closed.
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Thames Water said the new tunnel is needed to stop increasing amounts of sewage being discharged into the Thames from the Victorian sewers.
Already in the planning stages: a 37-km tunnel to channel water from the Benus river in water-rich Pahang state to drought-stricken Selangor state, and a pipe to link the Gombak river in KL to the Wangsa Maju water treatment plant.
Forty-three million gallons of water poured into the Brooklyn Battery tunnel.
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But operations were later suspended after a rock fall in a tunnel carrying water to the facility from a reservoir.
United Utilities is building a huge sewage tunnel beneath the city centre to improve drainage and water quality.
Murray said Thursday that if the miners survived the collapse, they could continue to live on fresh air, food and water supplied through the holes until crews can remove tons of coal and rock that clogged a collapsed tunnel.
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At certain moments the air streamed against the ship as if sucked through a tunnel with a concentrated solid force of impact that seemed to lift her clean out of the water and keep her up for an instant with only a quiver running through her from end to end.
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