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Town and Charles River Watershed partners unveil DeFazio parking-lot bioretention plan to cut phosphorus and standing water
Summary
The Select Board heard a presentation on a grant-funded design to add a bioretention basin at the DeFazio parking lot to reduce phosphorus loading to Aldebrook and to address frequent standing water; the design is at roughly 50% engineering and funded by a $125,000 coastal habitat and water-quality grant.
Town staff and partners from the Charles River Watershed Association and Beta Group presented a grant-funded engineering design to install a bioretention area in the DeFazio parking lot intended to reduce phosphorus discharge to Aldebrook and the Charles River and to reduce local ponding that repeatedly fills the lot.
Arina Perrea (Charles River Watershed Association) and engineers from Beta Group described the project origins: it emerged from the Charles River Climate Compact…
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