some tweets & pics from yesterday's DC Water 1st Street Tunnel Hard Hat Tour

For those who did not get an opportunity to attend one of the three Saturday, 10-24-2015, DC Water 1st Street Tunnel Hard Hat Tours -- you don't know what you missed!

Thanks to DC Water and Skanska!

Here are some tweets and pics:

Bloomingdame

For @dcwater @FirstStTunnel tour, we wore hard hats, muck boots, yellow vests.We did not look like Parisian tourists 

Bloomingdame ‏

Tracks-used to cart muck out of tunnel.Tracks were used to build original cells @McMillanPark & ties were sold after 

Bloomingdame ‏Oct 24

There is no miner's canary in the @dcwater @FirstStTunnel tunnel, but the air duct is canary yellow. 

  

CM McDuffie's Office ‏

Safety First!!! #FST #Lucy #DCWater #TunnelBoring

Bloomingdame

Miners have to eat, I guess. There's a porta potty, too. All the comforts of home. @dcwater @FirstStTunnel

Scott Roberts

the big vertical tube on the @McMillanPark site - on today's @DCWater @FirstStTunnel Hard Hat Tour #BloomingdaleDC

Malik K.Williams ‏

Had an amazing time touring the @dcwater First St Tunnel Project and saw TBM Lucy with @DCTommieJones @TJQANC5E06

Celebrity sighting!

                            

Mike Carter-Conneen

After nearly two years of construction, @dcwater gives tour of #FirstStreetTunnel project http://wjla.com/news/local/after-two-years-of-construction-dc-offers-first-underground-tunnel-tour …