Tunneling News
Super Excavators, Inc. was the successful low bidder on an $8.9 million project to Tunnel 2,300 lineal feet of 78” pipe in Michigan City, Indiana. Project should begin in the Spring of 2010.
Super Excavators, Inc. was recently awarded an $11 million Microtunnel project for the WDOT near Mitchell Field Airport in Milwaukee. We are nearly 75% done with the shaft construction and have completed two tunnel drives to date.
Super Excavators, Inc. is working on a $29 million Microtunnel project for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. The Barclay street project is nearing 60% completion and we expect the tunneling to be complete by December 2009. To date 3,347 lineal feet of 48” RCP and 6,051 lineal feet of 72” RCP Microtunnel is completed.
Super Excavators, Inc. purchased an Akkerman Pilot Tube Microtunneling system in Spring 2009 to install 24” HOBAS pipe on two projects. Super Excavators set a new Akkerman record on our Kenosha interceptor project by installing 490 lineal feet of pipe with this new Pilot Tube system. Our first three drives were quite long for the pilot tube technology with drive lengths of 430, 490, and 440 lineal feet.
Super Excavators, Inc. has completed the Microtunneling on the Appleton Post Office Interceptor project as of June 2009. We installed 1,777 lineal feet of 30” RCP Microtunnel in the “Paper Valley” recently. The mining conditions were difficult going through fill areas with wood and other debris as well as very sticky clays. Microtunneling was done with our SL36 Akkerman Microtunnel machine using disk cutters on the face.
Super Excavators, Inc. has completed a sliplining project for the City of Milwaukee. We sliplined the sewer with HOBAS pipe totaling 656’ of 51” and 1440’ of 60”.
