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"The Sandhog Project" depicting subterranean on photos
Yesterday there was an exhibition opened called "The Sandhog Project" at Grand Central Terminal, New York, offering glimpses of work being done on the Third Water Tunnel, a huge conduit that will one day carry 280 million gallons of water a day under the city. The themed exhibition is all dedicated to this $6 billion project of a tunnel – a 60-mile underground labyrinth from an upstate reservoir, expected to be completed by 2015. But it is not only the tunnel that photographer Gina LeVay's shows to viewers – the exhibition includes life-size portraits of sandhogs who are building it. The job seems to be rather hard and dangerous - the Third Water Tunnel has cost the lives of 23 sandhogs and a 12-year-old boy who fell into a shaft. But workers seem to be quite satisfied. Why? Visit the exhibition and try to find out.
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