NEWBURGH – The first of three underground tunnels planned for the City of Newburgh’s $32 million North Interceptor Sewer Improvement project has been completed and the second has begun.
Over a 35-day period, a special drilling machine cut through 487 feet of rock to complete the first tunnel along Colden Street between First and Second streets.
The interceptor project began in April 2022 and is expected to be completed in the spring of 2024.
At completion, the project, the largest infrastructure work in Newburgh in decades, will have installed 8,700 linear feet of new, larger-gravity sanitary sewer piping to make upgrades to the city’s sewer infrastructure that will protect water quality in the Hudson River.
This project “is part of $100 million in infrastructure projects underway throughout the City of Newburgh that will continue to revitalize our local economy,” City Manager Todd Venning said in a prepared statement in a news release.
