The Water Supply Department of the BMC digs a tunnel in a record amount of time

On Friday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) water supply department said that two tunnels had been excavated in record time. The first tunnel, which runs 9.68 kilometres from Ghatkopar's Amar Mahal junction to Parel, will improve water delivery in residential neighbourhoods such as Sion, Matunga, Dadar, Lalbaug, Parel, Byculla, Mazgaon and parts of Bombay's central region.

 

The second 5.52 km tunnel runs from Ghatkopar's Amar Mahal junction to Trombay, improving water supplies in the Govandi, Mankhurd, and Chembur regions. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) engineers had excavated 526 metres by December. In January, another 605 metres of excavation work in the first tunnel was finished. The BMC has excavated 1.7 kilometres of the tunnel in 115 days. In the second tunnel, 653 metres of excavation were completed in January.

 

It is sure to be noticed that the digging of the MCGM Water Tunnel Project was finished in record time by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The project comprised the construction of a 5.5-kilometer tunnel between Hedgewar Udhyan and Trombay, as well as other improvements to Greater Mumbai's water delivery infrastructure. Patel Engineering Ltd, one of India's largest infrastructure and construction services firms, received the prize.

 

Patel Engineering Ltd. used a 3.2 diameter open type tunnel boring machine to build the tunnel (TBM). The Tunnel travels beneath the city with an overburdened cover of roughly 100m and is more difficult to construct due to its smaller diameter of 3.2 metres. PEL began digging the tunnel last year and, as of January 2022, had completed 3 kilometres of tunnelling out of a total of 5.5 kilometres. TBM was used by Patel Engineering Ltd. (PEL) to bore the fastest tunnel of 600 metres. This is a tunnel boring record set in Mumbai below 100 metres utilizing a Tunnel Boring Machine section of 3.2 metres in diameter.