Revere Conservation Commission continues review of Revere High School stormwater and wetland impacts

The Revere City Conservation Commission on July 10 continued consideration of a notice of intent filed by the City of Revere for construction of a new Revere High School on the former Wonderland Greyhound Park site (DEP file 0610846).

The Commission heard a detailed presentation from Claire Hogeboom, a wetland scientist with LEC Environmental Consultants, and David Conway of Niche Engineering, who described grading, stormwater treatment trains and compensatory flood storage proposed across the site. The project team included Brian Dakin (owner’s project manager, Left Field), landscape architects Ty Johnson and Emmett Gregory, and Christy Lyons (Consigli, construction manager).

The project covers a large former racetrack parcel at VFW Parkway and North Shore Road. The proposal places a podium-style school building over at-grade parking, sets the first-floor elevation well above the current 100-year floodplain, and reconfigures the site to reduce impervious surface and add a network of stormwater controls. According to the team, the project would reduce impervious area on the site by about 6.5 acres and increase on-site stormwater storage by 5,116 cubic yards.

"For the record, Claire Hogeboom, wetland scientist with LEC Environmental Consultants representing the applicant, the city of Revere, for the Revere High School project notice of intent before the conservation commission," Hogeboom said at the start of the presentation, introducing the project team and the site context.

David Conway, the civil engineer presenting stormwater, said the design goal was to reduce impervious area and rely on a treatment-train approach to meet water-quality standards. "This will be one of the greenest schools we've done," Conway said. He described proposed water-quality units, vegetated swales and a mix of proprietary filter boxes and swales that the team says will achieve total suspended solids (TSS) removal rates in the range of roughly 87–90% depending on location and treatment train.

Key project elements presented to the…