Boring Co open to digging sewer, water tunnels

The company says its boring technology could be useful for more than just transportation tunnels.

Elon Musk's Boring Co has attracted the most attention for its bold transportation tunnel plans, but the company is now pitching its services for more mundane infrastructure projects.

The executive attended a recent gathering of thousands of mayors from across the country, providing an opportunity to promote Boring Co's broader plans to dig tunnels for water, sewer and electrical infrastructure.

"We're not going to turn our noses up at sewage tunnels," he said at the event, as quoted by Forbes. "We're happy to do that too."

Boring Co's plan for an underground transportation network centers around smaller diameter tunnels that can theoretically be dug much more quickly than traditional road tunnels. Focusing on smaller tunnels is said to slash costs and opens the door for infrastructure projects.

"We're looking to revolutionary implementations of advanced tunneling, and I think we can really transform the transportation network of America, but key to that is the support of cities," Musk said to the mayors.

Boring Co already has one potential infrastructure client lined up, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who expressed interest in commissioning the company's first sewage tunnel.

For now, the startup is weeks away from providing the first demonstration rides in its test tunnel beneath the streets of Hawthorne.