Port Tunnel still leaking

darkman2

Port Tunnel still leaking, footage shows

15 February 2006 15:31
Leaks at Dublin's Port Tunnel are continuing despite an earlier commitment from the city council that the problem would be resolved by last month.

RTÉ News has seen new footage taken by an insider which shows that six weeks after the original issue was highlighted, the tunnel continues to leak.

Dublin City Council says over the past weeks preparatory work has taken place to allow the repairs to begin.


Italian specialists responsible for installing waterproof membranes have returned to Dublin.

The council says the work will take place at the expense of the contractors. It stresses this will not delay the rest of the work on the tunnel.

But it has not committed itself to a timetable to fix the leaks. It also stresses there is no safety issue.

The original problem occurred when it emerged the concrete was too thin on parts of the tunnel's roof. When contractors tried to remove it they accidentally burst a waterproof membrane.

Oh dear...............................:(

News at 1 report: http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2115798.smil

narommy

You're as bad as the Sindo

AFAIK this "tunnel" with the leak is only a crossover between the two main tunnels. If there was an accident it may be needed but otherwise if is only for servicing.

There are time constraints on certain work and by the time you get the lads over from Italy for a repair that isn;t urget i think 6 weeks is reasonable.

There have been no structural problems identified with the main bores as far as know.


( I heard someone explaining the way the distance between the track on the luas isdifferent only 2 weeks ago. Some people don't get it)

Maskhadov

A lot of this is spin and newspapers not refusing ink. The media needs stories like these to keep everything going. Just remember the LUAS and all the lies that were told about it.

ballooba

Who cares if it's leaking. as long as it's fixed. the Jack Lynch Tunnel leaked too. Granted not as much. But it leaked all the same.

antoinolachtnai

I think putting a truck-wash in the Port Tunnel was a great idea.

aliveandkicking

http://www.dublincity.ie/press_news/press_releases/statement_on_the_dublin_port_tunnel.asp

The situation with regard to the leak in the Dublin Port Tunnel is as we have already stated; it occurred when a waterproof membrane was accidentally punctured in one small section of one of the two 4.6km tunnel bores. The amount of water involved is no more than the equivalent of leaving the bath tap running. The leak has no safety implications; either for workers on the Tunnel, for the structural integrity of the project or for the buildings and houses above the tunnel. It doesn’t have any cost implications for the project, as it is being paid for by the Consortium who are building the Tunnel. Neither is the leak impeding work on the rest of the Tunnel. The water is groundwater and is not polluting anything.



The repair work is being carried out by specialist Italian sub-contractors. Initially the consortium responsible for constructing the tunnel believed this would be done by the end of January. For scheduling reasons this did not happen. We are now assured the leak will be stopped within two weeks. Reinstating the small section of roof affected will follow.



The leak is not a major engineering problem. The Dublin Port Tunnel will be the largest tunnel in Ireland or the UK. It is a major infrastructural project and its construction involves many challenges every day. The current leak is not one of them, despite the way it is being depicted in the media.



Bearing in mind that there are no time or safety, or cost implications arising from the leak and that the situation has not dis-improved, in our opinion it does not justify the extensive, negative media coverage it has attracted.

Metrobest

aliveandkicking wrote:

http://www.dublincity.ie/press_news/press_releases/statement_on_the_dublin_port_tunnel.asp

The situation with regard to the leak in the Dublin Port Tunnel is as we have already stated; it occurred when a waterproof membrane was accidentally punctured in one small section of one of the two 4.6km tunnel bores. The amount of water involved is no more than the equivalent of leaving the bath tap running. The leak has no safety implications; either for workers on the Tunnel, for the structural integrity of the project or for the buildings and houses above the tunnel. It doesn’t have any cost implications for the project, as it is being paid for by the Consortium who are building the Tunnel. Neither is the leak impeding work on the rest of the Tunnel. The water is groundwater and is not polluting anything.



The repair work is being carried out by specialist Italian sub-contractors. Initially the consortium responsible for constructing the tunnel believed this would be done by the end of January. For scheduling reasons this did not happen. We are now assured the leak will be stopped within two weeks. Reinstating the small section of roof affected will follow.



The leak is not a major engineering problem. The Dublin Port Tunnel will be the largest tunnel in Ireland or the UK. It is a major infrastructural project and its construction involves many challenges every day. The current leak is not one of them, despite the way it is being depicted in the media.



Bearing in mind that there are no time or safety, or cost implications arising from the leak and that the situation has not dis-improved, in our opinion it does not justify the extensive, negative media coverage it has attracted.

Oh dear! What have the media been saying now?

In its rothweiler coverage of infrastructure development, the Irish media comes across as a a bunch of hicks. They cannot seem to understand that engineering projects take time to build and do often encounter problems during construction. They expect perfection; perfection is not a realistic expectation.

In most civilised societies, the media backs up the big urban projects, acting as a platform to inform the public of how the project will affect them: negatively (construction phase); postively (post-construction.). The Irish media focuses entirely on the negative in a most harmful way. It stokes fear in the public, it makes the public frightened of big projects. What's more, it deliberately mis-informs the public about luas and the port tunnel "problems" to boost sales.

The media seems unable, or unwilling, to accept that big projects in Irealand are realistic and achievable - just like any other country. It cannot seem to get out of the mindset that Ireland is some provincial backwater incapable of doing anything off its own bat.

The ultimate irony is that when a big project such as luas is finally delivered, the media rolls over and turns into a poodle. Witness how the media turned into a luas fanzine when the Green line opened. Pages were adorned with pictures that made the trams look like continental metros. Property pages spoke of "silver bullets" coming to an area near you. The wheel had turned full circle.

I predict that when the port tunnel opens, the media will have forgotten about all the leaks. Suddenly there'll be calls for road tunnels here, there and everywhere. And the whole bish-bash-bonk saga will begin with the next project, most probably the metro.

murphaph

Indeed metrobest, you are spot on. The clowns in the media are always at this. The thing is, with every project they scare monger about which completes and opens, the public trust this media 'coverage' less and less and are now becoming immune to the BS. Everybody expects the tunnel to open and nobody thinks they'll drown if they use it. Show me a tunnel built in a climate like ours (and many drier) that didn't have water ingress during construction! It's par for the course.

1huge1

whats the betting there will be leaking on the shannon tunnel also lol
anyway which is longer the jack lynch tunnel in cork or the to be built shannon tunnel? (sickener that its being tolled by the way lucky cork people getting away with it with their tunnel)