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Second tunnel connects Obenseuer's open water canals, that branch off from the Fisch River, with the Freshwater Tunnel No.1 and is around 4,9 km long. The tunnel acts as an auxililary supply of water to the tunnel no.1, however the open canals the water goes initilly through has been contaminated with mining slag, from the past mining operations, and sewage, dumped into the canals directly by the district residents. The tunnel also provides water intake for various factories south of it, splitting into multiple smaller tunnels, and has at least one major facility lengthwise. | Second tunnel connects Obenseuer's open water canals, that branch off from the Fisch River, with the Freshwater Tunnel No.1 and is around 4,9 km long. The tunnel acts as an auxililary supply of water to the tunnel no.1, however the open canals the water goes initilly through has been contaminated with mining slag, from the past mining operations, and sewage, dumped into the canals directly by the district residents. The tunnel also provides water intake for various factories south of it, splitting into multiple smaller tunnels, and has at least one major facility lengthwise. | ||
Not much is know about construction circumstances of this tunnel, however it is possible that it was constructed during a 20 years gap between the construction of first and third freshwater tunnels, around | Not much is know about construction circumstances of this tunnel, however it is possible that it was constructed during a 20 years gap between the construction of first and third freshwater tunnels, between around late 1950s to late 1970s. This second tunnel is a continuation of supply route used by smugglers to deliver goods from upper Hammer Valley, through the tunnel no.1, to the Obenseuer. | ||
==Freshwater Tunnel No.3== | ==Freshwater Tunnel No.3== | ||