Community Process Permitting & Training
Cape Wind NEPA Compliance, Nantucket Sound
State and federal requirements called for significant new capacity to accommodate future demand, and to enhance fuel source diversity and reliability for electric generating plants serving New England. These requirements pointed towards the siting of an offshore Wind Park in the shallow waters of Nantucket Sound. High profile political and media personalities drew national attention to the project which increased scrutiny, conflict, slowed the approval process and ... More...
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 Conservation Conveyance
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... 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...
