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Balfour Beatty<\/a>, alongside its joint venture partners Morgan Sindall<\/a> and BAM Nuttall<\/a> has seen one of its two tunnel boring machines (TBM) become the first to break through the ground for London\u2019s new super sewer<\/h2>\n

The tunnel boring machine, named Charlotte, is digging the Frogmore Connection Tunnel from Wandsworth to Fulham as part of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project<\/a> to clean up the Thames from sewage pollution.<\/p>\n

The 1.1km tunnel will take sewage overflows from King George\u2019s Park into the main 25km super sewer at Fulham, where it will be transferred to east London for treatment instead of polluting the River Thames.<\/p>\n

The 500m southern section of the Frogmore Connection Tunnel, from Dormay Street to King George\u2019s Park, is now complete. The TBM will now be lifted from the shaft, taken back to Dormay Street and placed back into the ground to tunnel 600m north to Fulham.<\/p>\n

Sally Cox, project director for the joint venture, said: \u201cThis breakthrough, the first on the Tideway project, marks another key step toward a cleaner, healthier River Thames.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite being the smallest TBM on the Tideway project, Charlotte is creating vital infrastructure that will benefit Londoners and their river for many years to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur tunnelling team has done a fantastic job getting this machine to King George\u2019s Park and will now focus on completing the northern section of the Frogmore Connection Tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tunnel boring machine is 3m wide and over 70m long, while the Frogmore Connection Tunnel is being created at a depth of around 30m.<\/p>\n

The TBM has been refurbished and previously worked on a water ring-main project in north London.<\/p>\n

The first section of the main tunnel is also close to completion, as the tunnel boring machine, Millicent, approaches Fulham after tunnelling almost 5km from Battersea. So far, 8km of the Thames Tideway Tunnel has been built, with four tunnelling machines in the ground.<\/p>\n

Once complete in 2024, the tunnel will help stop tens of millions of tonnes of raw sewage pouring into the river every year.<\/p>\n

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