A six-tonne tunnel boring machine is at work in Hampshire to help keep the county’s taps and rivers
the TBM named “Ancasta” will bore a tunnel from Otterbourne to Yew Hill reservoir, near Winchester to Southern Water’s Rownhams water supply works on the outskirts of Southampton | Credits: Southern Water
A manually operated tunnel boring machine called "Ancasta" is helping to dig underground tunnels that form part of a Southern Water project called the Southampton Link Main, a 19km drinking water pipeline...
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