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Board of Water Supply. City Water Tunnel No. 2. Patrick McGovern, Inc., contractor. Grouting of the concrete tunnel lining in progress. The equipment is rigged up on flat cars being moved into position by a storage battery locomotive. Generally four such cars are used, holding, respectively, cement and sand, a grout mixing machine, a pump, and a timber working platform for drilling out and making connections to the grout pipes. The grout is pumped through a hose connection into the grout pipe. The pump is seen in the foreground with the grout mixing machine being loaded directly behind it. November 20, 1931.

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