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3RPORT Three Rivers Protection and Overflow Reduction Tunnel

Where’s MamaJo? – 6/16/2021

MamaJo is rapidly closing in on the finish line of Fort Wayne City Utilities' 3RPORT Three Rivers Protection and Overflow Reduction Tunnel.
The MamaJo TBM Cutterhead

MamaJo TBM Cutterhead lowered this morning

Construction crews at the working shaft of Fort Wayne's deep rock sewer tunnel lowered the first piece of MamaJo, the Tunnel Boring Machine, into the ground today.

MamaJo reaches halfway point

City of Fort Wayne Utilities news release announcing the passing of the halfway point on MamaJo's underground journey.

MamaJo has reached Foster Park

Today, after pounding through nearly five miles of bedrock over three years, MamaJo, the Tunnel Boring Machine, called it a day.
City of Fort Wayne seal

“Once in a lifetime” tunnel project

Fort Wayne City Utilities will host three public forums to share information with residents about the upcoming Deep Rock Tunnel.

Video: MamaJo celebration

The City of Fort Wayne announced on June 30, 2021, that the MamaJo Tunnel Boring Machine has almost completed the 3RPORT Three Rivers Protection and Overflow Reduction Tunnel.

Where’s MamaJo?

MamaJo is the hard-working Tunnel Boring Machine that is drilling a tunnel around Fort Wayne called the 3RPORT Three Rivers Protection and Overflow Reduction Tunnel.

Help name the Tunnel Boring Machine

The City of Fort Wayne is asking residents to vote on the new name for our Tunnel Boring Machine.

River names combine for TBM moniker – MamaJo

The hardest worker on Fort Wayne’s Deep Rock Tunnel project, at 24-hours a day, will be the Tunnel Boring Machine, which today has been given a name - MamaJo.
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Downtown forum details the deep rock tunnel

Area residents are invited to learn more about Fort Wayne's deep rock tunnel at a community forum on Monday, March 7th.