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    Sewer Gravity Tunnel Breaks Through

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    The city of Honolulu has completed a 3-mile gravity tunnel beneath Oneawa Hills to carry wastewater from Kaneohe to the Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. A tunnel boring machine drilled the 13-foot diameter tunnel in 13 months. Crews will now install hundreds of pipe segments to line the tunnel and allow wastewater to flow by gravity from Kaneohe to Kailua. The $371 million project is expected to be completed in 2018 and will replace an existing pressurized pipe once completed.

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    The city of Honolulu has completed a 3-mile gravity tunnel beneath Oneawa Hills to carry wastewater from Kaneohe to the Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. A tunnel boring machine drilled the 13-foot diameter tunnel in 13 months. Crews will now install hundreds of pipe segments to line the tunnel and allow wastewater to flow by gravity from Kaneohe to Kailua. The $371 million project is expected to be completed in 2018 and will replace an existing pressurized pipe once completed.

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    The city of Honolulu has completed a 3-mile gravity tunnel beneath Oneawa Hills to carry wastewater from Kaneohe to the Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. A tunnel boring machine drilled the 13-foot diameter tunnel in 13 months. Crews will now install hundreds of pipe segments to line the tunnel and allow wastewater to flow by gravity from Kaneohe to Kailua. The $371 million project is expected to be completed in 2018 and will replace an existing pressurized pipe once completed.

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    The city of Honolulu has completed a 3-mile gravity tunnel beneath Oneawa Hills to carry wastewater from Kaneohe to the Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. A tunnel boring machine drilled the 13-foot diameter tunnel in 13 months. Crews will now install hundreds of pipe segments to line the tunnel and allow wastewater to flow by gravity from Kaneohe to Kailua. The $371 million project is expected to be completed in 2018 and will replace an existing pressurized pipe once completed.

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    KANEOHE
    WASTEWATER
    PRE-TREATMENT
    FACILITY

    KANEOHE
    BAY DRIVE

    AIKAHI
    GARDENS

    KANEOHE
    BAY

    KAILUA
    REGIONAL
    WASTEWATER
    TREATMENT
    PLANT

    H3

    Tunnel
    route

    KAILUA

    KANEOHE
    MOKAPU
    BOULEVARD

    KANEOHE WASTEWATER
    PRE-TREATMENT
    FACILITY

    Pipe to carry wastewater from Kaneohe to Kailua will now be installed


    GRAVITY-DR IVEN WASTEW
    ATE R TO FLOW THIS WAY

    PHASE 1: Digging the gravity sewer tunnel...

    lion Phase 3, the final phase, a tunnel


    influent facility will be built at the
    Kaneohe facility.
    The project, required by a court-mandated consent decree, began in 2013
    and is expected to wrap up in 2018.
    The tunnel-boring machine is nicknamed Pohakulani, Hawaiian for heavenly rock. Aikahi Elementary Schools
    robotics team came up with the name.
    Like other Honolulu sewer improvements, the project is funded by sewer
    fees.
    Caldwell, at a news conference, said
    this is the first time the city has used
    gravity tunnel technology, but it likely
    wont be the last, adding that gravity
    tunnels are preferable to force mains.
    This is about living more sustainable
    and more green, Caldwell said. When
    you pump it under pressure, if theres a
    force main break, a lot of sewage comes
    out of the ground very quickly. But if its
    gravity flow, theres no pressure, and
    were not using any energy or electricity
    to pump it.
    Funding is in the 2017 budget for planning and design of a similar facility that
    would take sewage from Waikiki to Ala
    Moana, he said.
    Don Painter, project manager for contractor Southland Mole, said the upfront
    cost of gravity sewer technology might
    be higher, but maintenance is cheaper
    than force mains. A gravity sewer, once
    its in the ground, its pretty much there
    forever, and you dont have to do anything to it.

    Estimated cost
    NOVEMBER 2015

    5,278
    Approximate truckloads
    of material excavated from tunnel

    ... and installing tunnel pipe lining

    1,056

    WHATS NEXT

    Approximate truckloads of material


    excavated from shafts on both ends

    Phase 1 continues with the installation of hundreds of pipe segments, each 10 feet
    in diameter. Segments will be grouted into place to handle the wastewater flow.

    KAILUA SHAFT
    SHAFT SIZE: 87 feet wide
    BELOW GROUND LEVEL: 95 feet

    TBM reaches
    midway point
    of the tunnel

    APRIL 2015
    CRAIG T. KOJIMA / JAN. 12

    Starts boring
    with tunnel
    boring machine
    (TBM)

    Kane Pelkington moves a small


    train through the tunnel of the
    Kailua Regional Wastewater
    Treatment Plant project site.

    Artists
    rendering
    not to scale

    PHASE 2: Pump station


    IN KAILUA

    TH
    LENG

    ET
    20 FE

    DIAMETER

    10 FEET

    com

    com

    The pipe will be


    grouted in place inside
    the bored tunnel
    13 feet in diameter.

    Thickness: 3 inches
    Weight: 18,000 pounds
    Made of: Glass fiber-reinforced
    thermosetting resin

    885

    COURTESY BOWERS + KUBOTA

    The pipes will be transported into the


    tunnel using a special pipe carrier.

    A construction worker is greeted on the Kaneohe side


    of the tunnel Tuesday after emerging from an opening
    in the tunnel-boring machine.

    WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

    Comparing loads
    Average sewage
    processed per day by
    wastewater treatment
    plants, in millions of
    gallons:

    Video of the tunnel breakthrough


    is available at staradvertiser.com.
    MARTHA HERNANDEZ / MHERNANDEZ@STARADVERTISER.COM

    PHASE 3: Facility
    IN KANEOHE

    A tunnel influent facility will be


    constructed at the Kaneohe Pretreatment Facility.
    TENTATIVE START .................................... 2017
    ESTIMATED COST ......................$21 million

    Steel ribs were installed


    to support the tunnel wall.

    Number of pipe segments


    of varying length needed for
    the 3-mile gravity tunnel

    A tunnel influent pump station will


    be installed in the Kailua shaft to
    receive and pump the flows up to the
    Kailua Treatment Plant.
    TENTATIVE START ................................... 2016
    ESTIMATED COST .................. $150 million

    Kailua
    Regional

    Honouliuli

    Sand Island

    12M

    25M

    62M

    Project completion
    After completion of the project,
    the existing force main will be
    decommissioned, and flow will be
    redirected to the gravity tunnel.

    2018
    PROJECTED
    COMPLETION

    $371M
    ESTIMATED
    TOTAL COST

    Source: City and County of Honolulu

    FROM PAGE ONE

    ity contractors have successfully bored a 3-mile tunnel beneath Oneawa Hills, a critical
    component of the $371 million
    Kaneohe-Kailua Waste Water
    Conveyance and Treatment Facilities
    Project, Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced
    Tuesday.
    It took roughly 13 months for the tunnel-boring machine to drill the
    13-foot-diameter puka that eventually
    will house a 10-foot pipe tasked with delivering sewage to the Kailua Regional
    Wastewater Treatment Plant from the
    Kaneohe Wastewater Pre-Treatment Facility by way of gravity.
    The tunnel runs from a depth of 35
    feet below ground level on the Kaneohe
    side and travels down to a depth of 62
    feet on the Kailua side, city officials said.
    To complete the $200 million Phase 1,
    contractors will now install 885 pipe
    segments, each 10 feet in diameter and
    20 feet long, that will carry the wastewater flow.
    While the sewage will flow from
    Kaneohe to Kailua, the boring actually
    began from the shaft of the Kailua plant,
    moved beneath the Aikahi Gardens subdivision through Halia Street, under the
    Kailua side of H-3 freeway, crossed beneath Kaneohe Bay Drive and under the
    Bay View Golf Course to reach the
    Kaneohe facility.
    In the $150 million Phase 2, a pump
    station will be installed in the Kailua
    shaft that will receive and move the flow
    up to the treatment plant. In the $21 mil-

    $200 million

    A tunnel-boring machine (TBM) drills a tunnel 13 feet in diameter and about


    3 miles long from Kailua to Kaneohe. With the completion of the tunnel, the TBM
    will be disassembled.

    gordonpang@staradvertiser.com

    TUNNEL
    LENGTH: About 3 miles

    COMPLETED

    By Gordon Y.K. Pang

    KAILUA REGIONAL
    WASTEWATER
    TREATMENT PLANT

    GROUND LEVEL

    KANEOHE SHAFT
    SHAFT SIZE: About 31 feet wide
    BELOW GROUND LEVEL: 39 feet

    OAHU

    JANUARY 2015

    Breaks through
    the shaft wall
    to begin boring
    starter tunnel

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    JUNE 28

    Tunnel boring
    completed when
    TBM meets
    Kaneohe
    excavator

    A6

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