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ACEC MA Names Restoration Project Bronze Winner

Boston –  GZA,  has been named a Bronze Award winner of the 2017 American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) Engineering Excellence Awards for its submission of work related to the Muddy River Flood Damage Reduction and Environmental Restoration Project in Boston and Brookline.

Flow Restriction Control Structure – Muddy River.

The project is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project.  GZA, in association with Ft. Hill Associates, assisted the Contractor, Charter Environmental, Inc., in developing an innovative approach to temporarily passing the flows in the river while at the same time allowing the contractor to work to construct improvements within the river channel.

The plan used both pumping and open channels created by temporary steel sheet pile cofferdams to both protect work area and maintain the ability to pass flood flows downstream.