The Detroit Water and Sewer Dept. is hoping to recoup as much as $90 million of a $118-million outfall tunnel project that it abandoned after the tunnel flooded during construction in 2003. The agency filed a $66-million insurance claim in March on the builder's risk policy issued by St. Paul to the tunnel contractor, Traylor-Jay Dee, a joint venture of Traylor Bros. Inc., Evansville, Ind., and Jay Dee Contractors Inc., Livonia, Mich., says DWSD's John McGrail, assistant general superintendent of engineering-construction. DWSD also is a named insured under the policy. Negotiations on the claim were due to begin April 14, he says. "We're pretty much writing off the tunnel itself," he adds.
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