The City of Toronto has issued an emergency contract to a construction company to retrieve a boring machine that’s been stuck underground in the west end for nine months after it became tangled in steel wires.
The contract, awarded to Clearway Construction Ltd. last month, is valued at just under $9 million and is “a matter of extreme urgency, as there was a significant health and safety hazard to the public,” according to the city.
The machine was first put into the ground in March 2022 to dig a 900 millimetre diameter storm sewer along Old Mill Drive north of Bloor Street West as part of the city’s Basement Flooding Protection Program. While the machine stayed on course for most of its journey, it encountered an issue in May that caused it to deviate from its path, requiring it to be rescued and realigned.
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