Watershed, Stormwater, & Integrated Water Management
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...
Hamden Middle School
The Bioengineering Group was retained to develop a sustainable stormwater management plan for a new middle school under construction in Hamden, Connecticut as well as to recommend other low impact development measures for site development consistent with site programming. The new middle school is located on land that formerly served as a portion of a public golf course and a gravel pit and the site drains to two brooks subject to frequent flooding... More...
South Central Connecticut Water Treatment Plant
The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority’s (RWA) new water purification facility required sensitive design and construction techniques in order to enhance public access of all types into an industrial facility. Multi stakeholder satisfaction while incorporating educational benefits was paramount. This highly visible site is adjacent to historic sites within a residential neighborhood and is located on a sensitive tributary of Long Island Sound... More...
MIT Stata Center
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge hired Frank O. Gehry & Associates to design a new complex dedicated to offices, research institutes, and laboratories for computer, information, and intelligence sciences and to serve as an interdisciplinary incubator for new ideas. When watershed and stormwater management requirements presented major hurdles to approval of the project, The Bioengineering Group was hired to supplement the original... More...
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa’s new Athletic-Recreation Facilities Complex includes an Athletic Building, a Visitor’s Center, outdoor tennis courts and parking lots. Prior to development the site received large volumes of stormwater from adjacent residential neighborhoods and the proposed development significantly increased impervious surfaces. The Bioengineering Group was tasked to design a state-of-the-art stormwater management system that was ecologically... More...
Upper Connecticut River Habitat Restoration Plan
In May of 2001, the U.S. Congress authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to conduct an expedited reconnaissance study, or 905(b) assessment of the Upper Connecticut River watershed in New Hampshire and Vermont to identify streambank restoration opportunities. Preliminary investigations by the Connecticut River Joint Commission (CRJC) identified numerous erosion sites of concern along the Upper Connecticut River. More...
