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With the last steel sheet pile installed on October 3, the main works to build the cofferdam for the construction of the Taihu Lake Tunnel was finally completed.
The tunnel, the longest under a lake in China, will be 10.79 kilometers long and 17.45 meters wide. The project has installed 68,000 steel sheet piles and 4,626 steel tube piles in two years and seven months.
Construction will focus on the tunnel itself and other efforts to build the road surface will be also underway. The aim is to get the tunnel pass through before the end of this year.
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