From the air, it just looks like a big hole, but the L.A. County Sanitation District’s wastewater tunnel is a massive project that runs for miles, 400 feet underground.
Even with a $700 million price tag, Los Angeles County’s Clearwater Project had flown under the public’s radar for more than a decade, until a tunnel collapse Wednesday night endangered the lives of 31 workers who were hundreds of feet underground.
The largest construction project in Los Angeles County will be possibly shut down for weeks as the investigation continues into what caused a massive tunnel to collapse, trapping dozens of workers below ground.
“Most people in the Harbor Area communities didn’t even realize that this tunnel was being bored beneath them,” said L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn in a written statement. “We will be looking into exactly what caused this, and will do everything we can to prevent anything else like this from happening again.”…