Snowy 2.0’s new tunnel boring machine’s cutterhead piece has been transported through Cooma to the Marica worksite north of Kiandra, in New South Wales.
The piece belonging to TBM Monica is 73 metres long and is the main excavation tool of the TBM. It’s too large to move in one piece, so it needs to be split and transported in five segments.
David Evans, Chief Delivery Officer – Snowy Hydro said the smooth transfer was the result of months of hard work and planning.
“It’s an amazing sight to watch the huge pieces of our tunnel boring machine travel through Cooma and up to our remote Marica work site,” said Evans.
“It’s a credit to the project’s hard-working traffic and transport team that we’ve been able to complete this complex operation safely.”
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More than 140 big loads have been delivered to the Marica site from Port Kembla in recent weeks.
TBM Monica will become the project’s fourth active mega tunnelling machine, once it is assembled and commissioned in the coming months.
In 2019, SnowyHydro commenced construction of the Snowy 2.0 project, which aimed to link two existing dams, Tantangara and Talbingo, through a 27-kilometre underground tunnel and a new underground power station.
The Snowy 2.0 project is the next chapter in the Snowy Scheme’s history, a large-scale renewable energy project that will provide on-demand energy and storage to Australia’s southern states.
For more information, visit: www.snowyhydro.com.au/
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