The City of Toronto has issued an emergency contract to a construction company to retrieve a boring machine that’s been stuck underground in the west end for nine months after it became tangled in steel wires.
The contract, awarded to Clearway Construction Ltd. last month, is valued at just under $9 million and is “a matter of extreme urgency, as there was a significant health and safety hazard to the public,” according to the city.
The sewer is meant to divert rainfall away from homes in the area and decrease the risk of basement and home flooding. The machine was stopped in its tracks and the tangled mess once again required a rescue effort, as it posed a serious threat to surrounding infrastructure both below and above ground.
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