"Big Pipe" celebrates west side completion

This milestone will help control sewage overflows and leaves us with a cleaner riverNext time you cross the Willamette River, know that 100 million gallons of sewage will be pumped from the west side of the city, under the river, and to the newly completed Swan Island pump station. This is where Sam and I gathered with nearly 100 other people to celebrate the completion of this $390 million infrastructure project.

"The pipe is how big?"This "big pipe" is a 3.5 mile tunnel, 14 feet in diameter, and 120 feet deep. This remarkable engineering achievement will be pumping up to 100 million gallons of sewage a day by this December.

Thanks to the smart people at BES and all our partners for keeping this project on time and under budget.Congratulations to the Bureau of Environmental Services and our contractor Impregilo-Healy Joint Venture for successfullycompleting this project on time and on budget. In particular Jim McDonald, Project Manager, and Giuseppe Quarta, Project Director are to be commended for their superb leadership.

Sam and Mayor Potter show off their World Cup Soccer jerseys.Giuseppe Quarta, Project Manager for IH honors Sam with a World Cup soccer jersey. By the way, #19 belongs to Italy's player, Gianluca Zambrott who is known to be the fastest left wing on the field.

Mayor Potter and Sam "flip the switch" which starts moving 100 gallons of sewage under the riverAnd when they flipped the switch, the river came alive.

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