Blue Hills Reservoir Site Restoration
Quincy & Milton, MA
Client | Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
Partners | Barletta Construction
For this project, Tom undertook supply infrastructure and ecological restoration efforts, managing the project from conceptual design, highly detailed permitting phases, and through construction design and implementation. He performed extensive construction oversight on this design/build contract. The infrastructure component focused on installing two ten million gallon underground water storage tanks to serve metropolitan Boston. The site restoration design around the tanks encompassed 20 acres of new wetlands, upland field, and forest edge habitat zones, surrounded by Blue Hills Reservation and thousands of new diverse native plantings installed.
Project Highlights
- 20-acre restoration project
- Part of a major water infrastructure upgrade
- 1-mile long natural pond edge restoration of former structured reservoir embankment
- Re-use of rock and debris
- Enhancement of endangered snake habitat
- Improved public access and overlook
- Project recognized by President’s Award from the engineering/design consulting firm
