Dan Warner

[5] In 2010, a team from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary ("NOBTS") launched an effort to clear a massive water tunnel, discovered first by Macalister over a hundred years earlier.

The NOBTS effort to re-clear and examine the tunnel has been chronicled in multiple sources including the Biblical Archaeology Review[7] and the Baptist Press.

[8] In 2011 professor Dennis Cole, archaeologist Dan Warner and engineer Jim Parker from NOBTS, led another team in an attempt to finish the effort.

Once inside it gave us a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction, but we are not done by a long shot.”[10] In 2013, the team began an effort to preserve the ancient Canaanite mudbrick gate and complex near the water system.

"[11] Also in 2011, BorderStone Press launched a "Research Israel" project in cooperation with NOBTS to participate in the dig and to document and publish a book on the findings.