The giant tunnel boring machine has been stuck for months in hard rock deep below the Kosciuszko National Park.
Florence the giant tunnel boring machine has again started grinding away underneath the Snowy Mountains, after spending two months stuck in rock while a recovery team blasted her free with powerful water jets.
Florence got wedged in hard rock on May 16, when she was negotiating a curve in the tunnel, and it took a seven-week effort from a crack team of contractors with high-pressure water jets to blast rock that was pinching her shield. The tunnel-borer initially ground to a halt when it hit soft ground less than 100 metres into its work underneath Kosciuszko National Park last October and remained stuck for most of 2023.
The Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project is an addition to the original Snowy Mountains Scheme, which opened in 1972 with 16 dams and 10 hydroelectricity projects.
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