On the Ballard Siphon project, the owner's project design was revised to move
a structure out of the tunnel shaft and the contractor re-sequenced its baseline schedule so that work could be performed concurrently with tunnelling.
Seems they didn't look hard enough — and instead overlooked possible solutions that were ruled
out as «global fixes» or simply too costly.A Clear Threat According to the Tennessean, the issue was that «Water was
tunneling in the layers
of ash and creating pressure points on the dike holding the
structure in place.»