Mudhoney is the namesake of a new tunnel boring machine in her hometown of Seattle. The machine will be digging a tunnel to reduce the city’s sewage overflow over the next four years. Below is a video of the group unveiling their eponymous appliance.
Mudhoney received the award as part of a crowd-sourced effort from the Ship Canal Water Quality Project in Seattle to name the machine and turned down over a thousand other suggestions. According to Seattle Public Utilities, the Mudhoney machine will dig a tunnel that is nearly 19 feet in diameter and 2.7 miles in length. Work will start this summer. The band’s most recent album was Digital Garbage from 2018.
