The Altai Mountains, from where engineers aim to divert snowmelt into arid regions under a massive tunnel project. Photo: Reuters
Chinese engineers digging world’s longest tunnel in Xinjiang desert hit a wall – of gushing water
- Work on tunnels to introduce snowmelt to arid region disrupted several times by ‘water inrush accidents’, paper by project engineers says
- Apart from the risk of damage to costly boring machines, such incidents threaten to seriously affect construction schedule
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The Altai Mountains, from where engineers aim to divert snowmelt into arid regions under a massive tunnel project. Photo: Reuters
