New York Plans For Panama Canal With $250M Water Tunnel

NEW YORK CITY-New York is continuing to build big – and dig deeper. In creating room for a new generation of container ships, city officials and representatives from the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey unveiled plans for a new $250 million water tunnel between Staten Island and Brooklyn that will serve as a critical element in the region’s Panama Canal expansion.

The project involves digging a new water transmission main called a “siphon” between Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and Tompkinsville on Staten Island that will allow for the removal of two existing tunnels that are currently at a shallower depth. In turn, the work will enable the dredging and deepening of the Anchorage Channel, which will pave the way for post-Panamax ships to access and utilize the New York/New Jersey harbor.