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The super sewer Thames Tideway<\/a> has taken one step closer to cleaning up the River Thames, as tunnel boring machine (TBM) \u2018Charlotte\u2019 completes her journey<\/h2>\n

Yesterday (2 July) TBM Charlotte completed her journey to Fulham, finishing a vital connection tunnel beneath the river.<\/p>\n

The finished 1.1km connection tunnel, created at a depth of around 30 meters, will take sewage overflows from King George\u2019s Park into the main 25km tunnel at Carnwath Road, where it will be transferred to east London for treatment instead of polluting London’s waterway.<\/p>\n

Charlotte is one of the project\u2019s smaller TBMs, measuring three metres wide and more than 70 metres long. She is named after suffragist Charlotte Despard and was the first to break through the ground to complete a section of tunnel for London\u2019s new super sewer<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n

Charlotte\u2019s previous excavations<\/h3>\n

Having dug the 500m southern section of the Frogmore Connection Tunnel, from Dormay Street to King George\u2019s Park, she was then hoisted from the shaft, taken back to Dormay Street and put back into the ground to tunnel the final 600m to Carnwarth Road.<\/p>\n

With the tunnelling now complete, Ciaran McQuaid, project manager for the western section of the project, said: \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see Charlotte finally through into the Carnwath Road reception chamber and a big congratulations to the team for all their hard work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will probably be the end of my 12 year connection with TBM Charlotte from being a shift engineer on her back in 2008 on the Thames Water Ring Main Extension, watching her going through her remanufacturing ready for tunnelling on Frogmore Connection Tunnel and then completing her job in style yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a TBM that is turning 26 in November and has now completed six tunnel projects, she did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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