Boston – GEI Consultants, Inc. congratulates NSTAR, MADEP, and the rest of the project team on being honored with the Environmental Business Council’s (EBC) Nicholas Humber Environmental Award for Outstanding Collaboration. The award recognizes an environmentally-related endeavor that is a joint or shared project between an EBC member and another person or entity, and that reflects the global environmental values and human spirit exemplified by Mr. Humber, a former EBC member.
NSTAR and its team were honored for remediation work done on the New Bedford Boat Slip MGP Site in New Bedford. NSTAR’s successful collaboration included numerous organizations in a public-private partnership that resulted in an expedited, innovative remediation of this critically located, contaminated boat slip in New Bedford Harbor.
The project is adjacent to a former manufactured gas plant (MGP) and coal tar processing facility that operated at the site from the 1880s through the 1960s, resulting in MGP impacts to marine sediments in the harbor. GEI’s contaminated sediment remediation design and engineering activities were the first phase of a multi-phase project aimed at redeveloping and revitalizing the industrial property on New Bedford’s waterfront.
Team members include: NSTAR: Project owner; Sprague Energy: Property owner/operator; Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection: Permit coordination, regulatory reviewer; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Permitting agency, regulatory reviewer; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Permitting agency; City of New Bedford: Stakeholder – Economic development interest; GEI Consultants: Design engineer and construction manager; Charter Environmental: Contractor; Lightship Engineering: Permitting consultant; Beals & Thomas: Permitting consultant; New Bedford Harbor Commission: Permitting agency and U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Office: Permitting agency
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