Final Environmental Impact Report - Whittier Bridge/I-95 ...

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What is the new situation for stormwater run-off for
the gasoline and oil that goes onto the roads Has
that been addressed
MR. BERTOULIS: Luckily the existing design was
put in in the seventies is a closed pipe system which
collects the water, and it wasn't going into detention
ponds or what they call recharge ponds along the
alignment because it's tied. It bisects the
Newburyport Water Department land. So it did capture
that flow quickly, put it in the system and luckily
where it was gasoline, gasoline basically did get
discharged in the river and very quickly, you know,
dissipated and evaporated for nominal conditions. So
it was an action, they put disbursements down. In the
places within the swale areas on the side of the road
they did dig and remove that material which contained
some local contamination.
Overall that system way of dealing with it was
actually the best for that area, which we checked with
the water supply. And we're putting a similar system
back in. We're also going to be collecting the
scuffers, flows along the bridge and they'll be
localized and so there will be some discharge points
at the piers and then some of the bridge flow will be
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