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Waveney Conservancy presents $2.5–3M schematic to reduce Merritt Parkway noise along Waveney trail
Summary
The Waveney Park Conservancy showed schematic plans from Heritage Landscapes to move the trail inward, extend berms, add plantings and limited fencing to reduce sound and visual impacts from the Merritt Parkway; cost estimate was $2.5–3 million and the group said it plans a staged project and fundraising.
The Waveney Park Conservancy presented a schematic redesign on Sept. 10 for a roughly 2,800-foot segment of the trail that runs adjacent to the Merritt Parkway, proposing to move the path inward, elevate and extend earthen berms, reinforce with stone walls in constrained sections and add native plantings to reduce noise and sightlines from the highway.
Veil Verdon, chair of the Waveney Park Conservancy, said the design grew from a multi-year review and a tree and wetlands inventory intended to preserve the landscape’s historic Olmsted character: “We went through a 2 year process...we think it will really remediate a lot of the issues along that trail. We think it will be…
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