Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem is that the tunnel has sprung a $200,000 leak, and city manager James L. Sullivan said this week he will initiate a suit against Harvard to recover the costs of the repairs...
...Maguire, Inc., the same firm that said the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library would have a "minimal impact" on Harvard Square, conducted a feasibility study on the tunnel and the De Mateo Construction Company built it. Afterwards, the University turned it over to Cambridge...
Conrad C. Fagone, commissioner of public works, said Tuesday that the defects in the tunnel were present in the original construction. Because the tunnel was improperly sealed, he said, water seeps into it when it rains, freezing during the winter and creating hazardous driving conditions...
Poorly constructed joints in the concrete underpass allow water to "bubble up" into the tunnel, Fagone said. In the winter the water freezes, and creates hazardous driving conditions, he added...
Repairs on the tunnel have been an issue between the University and the city for a number of years, and last fall the city threatened to sue Harvard for alleged faulty workmanship in the University's construction of the underpass...