Beacon, NY – The challenge put before Greenscape, Inc. and a talented team of professionals was to renovate a Hudson River park that has been an industrial wasteland for years.
What effect on a 15 acre waterfront site does a rail yard, commercial ferry landing, salvage/scrap yard, oil storage facility and a pesticide and herbicide manufacturing plant have on a relatively fragile ecosystem? Simply put, it will destroy the soil, plant and animal life.
The challenge put in front of Greenscape, Inc and a team of professionals was to renovate this waterfront site making the land a model for eco renovation.
The project is Long Dock Park in Beacon. After years of abuse to the land, the team will restore the future park and create wetland areas and meadows complete with walking trails, a boat landing for non powered boats, and a restored “Red Barn” to be used as a cultural center.
Before any new additions of trails and plants to the park could be started, environmental rehabilitation work had to be completed including the removal of more than 350 tons of contaminated soils; the identification and removal of non native and invasive plants that are competing with what is left of the native species; excavating soils in wetland areas to appropriate depths to remove depleted soils and replace them with appropriate soils and plantings; remove and replace deteriorating timber bulkheads with 3/8” thick steel bulkheading and the removal of concrete slabs and metal debris left behind from years of industrial use.
To complete the soil renovation, approximately two to three feet of specially blended soil will be reincorporated into much of the site, which then will be ready for the planting and construction.
By summer the park will be fully restored and visitors, both human and animal, will return to Long Dock Park to admire its newly re-created beauty and enjoy the magnificent views of the Hudson River. Greenscape, Inc is proud to be a part of this rewarding landscape renovation.