East River water leaks into Queens-Midtown Tunnel

Published: Sep 04, 2024 Duration: 00:02:22 Category: News & Politics

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>> Good evening, Corey. Surely. Well, it was a true nightmare this evening commute. But I want you to take a look at how things look right now. It's pretty steady and flowy, its normal things are back to normal. Now. Traffic is flowing both lanes inbound and outbound. I opened. guys, that are still a lot of questions as to how this incident could have happened. >> This video inside the Queens Midtown tunnel shows water pouring down the ceiling showing the severity of the league that cost of the tunnel to be shut down for hours as New York City, MTA authorities investigated roughly 12:30PM, this afternoon. >> A drilling contractor who was performing investigative work. Related to the design of the upcoming UN been It happened on the East River on the Manhattan side of the tunnel. >> The drilling contractor, Warren George drilled 100 feet. >> 50 feet through water, 50 feet through soil and then perforated the tunnel, out a 2 and a half inch hole. >> And just above exhaust through the investigation, it was determined the damage was done on the South tube of the tunnel which remained closed. Much of the afternoon. There are many redundancies in the tunnel. But when you know >> All of those layers? It's going to cost >> And emergency contractor was brought on to do enter and repair. And in the coming days, a permanent repairs expected to take place. Commuters were frustrated with the bumper to bumper traffic they experienced at peak rush hour time. That's and I'm being late to both of my appointments because of >> If you're coming from the human traffic 119 minutes, >> That's what customer had to pay to get to Manhattan. Now we reached out for comment to the contractor fault for the Occidental drilling. But we haven't heard back. We also reached out to the MTA to see if they were aware of the work that was being done.

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