How much did the Eruv cost to build?
Of course, each Eruv has its own specific cost; our initial cost was about $70,000 (in 1992 dollars) including all materials and labor. We needed many 20-24 foot 3-inch diameter, galvanized pipes to construct our “tzurot ha-pesach” along the Mass Pike and the MBTA train track (e.g., the Longwood Station area). This also required significant amount of excavation as well as substantial amounts of concrete. In some cases, the pipes needed to be made of large pipe sections for the lower portion (for stability) with somewhat thinner sections welded to the top of the lower sections. This required special clamp sections and welding costs. Affixing the pipes to the concrete walls along the Pike required that we fashion and build large metal clamps that, together with Hilti-style bolts, were used to clamp the pipes into their intended position. Lechi attachments were made to over 800 poles. Several lechis, slightly overlapping each other end-over-end as they snaked up the side of a pole, were r
