Community Process Permitting & Training
Cambridge Stormwater Treatment Wetland
As part of a massive sewer segregation project designed to eliminate Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO’s) to the Alewife Brook as part of the Boston Harbor Cleanup, the City of Cambridge needed to construct a stormwater management basin. The most feasible alternative was to construct the basin on land owned by the state, an idea at first rejected by the owner agency. Located within the 100-year flood plain in the Alewife Brook Reservation, an urban wild, the... More...
Charles River Basin MS4 General Permit Review
According to the 1996 National Water Quality Inventory, urban stormwater runoff is a leading source of water pollution. The under NPDES Phase II of the Clean Water Act, the Stormwater Program for Municipal Separate Sewer Systems (MS4s) is designed to reduce the amount of sediment and pollution that enters surface and ground water from storm sewer systems. A regionally active non-profit advocacy group, the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF)... More...
Honey Lake BRAC Conservation Transfer
The US Army needed to rapidly characterize environmental issues known to include endangered species, historic and cultural sites, unexploded ordnance (UXO), water rights, and recreational interests in order to transfer the Honey Lake parcel to new ownership in less than 150 days, in keeping with Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program goals. Honey Lake, a 62,000-acre site located adjacent to the Sierra Army Depot, is a shallow alkaline lake that was used from WWII through Desert Storm... More...
INS Border Patrol Stations
Post 9/11 the staff of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was dramatically increased and consequently a major building program was undertaken by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build or upgrade facilities to accommodate the enlarged staff. The New England District challenged the Bioengineering Group, and its large business subcontractor, to provide the fast track design for three U.S. Border Patrol Stations for construction... More...
