  Little_buddy Member Username: Little_buddy Post Number: 53 Registered: 03-2006 |
How far from the top of the tunnel to the bottom of the river. | ||
Homer Member Username: Homer Post Number: 260 Registered: 08-2004 |
From Wikipedia The Detroit–Windsor Tunnel was constructed of sections of steel tube floated into place and sunk into a trench dug in the river bottom. The river section of the tunnel was connected to bored tunnels on both banks. The tubes were then covered over in the trench by 4 to 20 feet (1.2 m to 6.1 m) of mud. Because the tunnel essentially sits on the river bottom, there is a wide no-anchor zone enforced on river traffic. | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 1273 Registered: 11-2003 |
Which tunnel are we talking about? The highway or the railroad? (The railroad is actually 2 tunnels side by side, BTW). | ||
One_shot Member Username: One_shot Post Number: 351 Registered: 11-2003 |
I'm confused. If the tunnel was placed in a TRENCH dug on the river bottom and covered by 4-20 feet of mud, then how can the tunnel "essentially be sitting on the river bottom"? | ||
Clark1mt Member Username: Clark1mt Post Number: 123 Registered: 06-2005 |
I'm pretty sure this is meant to be a comparison to a bored tunnel | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 251 Registered: 05-2007 |
A little history of the tunnel with a nice little picture http://www.dwtunnel.com/histor y.html More history and old photos from the detroit news http://forums.detnews.com/hist ory/story/index.cfm?id=51&cate gory=locations | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 411 Registered: 07-2007 |
"I'm confused. If the tunnel was placed in a TRENCH dug on the river bottom and covered by 4-20 feet of mud, then how can the tunnel "essentially be sitting on the river bottom"?" It's all relative. Is it sitting on the river bottom? No. But drop an anchor from a Great Lakes freighter into that 4 - 20 feet of mud over the tunnel and it will be as if the anchor was dropped onto the tunnel itself. |
