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Braintree-Weymouth
Relief Facilities Project
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
BRAINTREE-WEYMOUTH TUNNEL |
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Tunnel Heading at Fore River Shipyard Piping in the Tunnel at Nut Island |
The MWRA Braintree-Weymouth Relief Facilities Project will expand and improve the Braintree-Weymouth System, MWRA’s network of sewer pump stations, interceptors and siphons that serves Braintree, Hingham, Holbrook, Randolph, Weymouth and parts of Quincy.
The project will transform the way that wastewater generated by these South Shore communities is conveyed to sewer treatment and processing facilities.
IMPROVING SEWER SERVICEThe project will increase the Braintree-Weymouth System’s peak flow capacity by approximately 19 million gallons per day and streamline the route that wastewater takes from South Shore communities to the Nut Island Headworks and the Deer Island Treatment Plant.
New Braintree-Weymouth System facilities will significantly reduce the risk of sewage surcharges and backups, which can be associated with sewer facilities that can’t accommodate all of their flow due to the growth of communities, or the age or insufficient size of the sewers, or the entry of non-sewage flows into sewers.
WHY THIS PROJECT IS IMPORTANT
Since MWRA was established in 1985, it has been working to improve and maintain its regional sewer facilities – the pipes and pump stations that carry wastewater from communities to treatment and processing plants.
MWRA’s regional sewer improvement projects, including the Braintree-Weymouth Relief Facilities Project, enable the whole sewer system to work as effectively as possible.
This project will protect the environment – not only Boston Harbor, but the waters and land of the project’s host communities. Just as importantly, the new facilities will benefit everyone who relies on the Braintree-Weymouth System for clean, safe, reliable sewer service.
For more, download: Project Fact Sheet (PDF)
TRUCK ROUTES
IPS/TUNNEL/NORTH WEYMOUTH RELIEF INTERCEPTOR: Route 53 to Route 18 to Route 3A
FORE RIVER SIPHONS: Designated truck route to Commerical St. to Narragansett Ave. to
Biscayne Ave to Pleasantview to Idlewell Blvc. and Arlington St.
TRUCK TRAFFIC HOURS: Trucking is prohibited
7 – 9 a.m. and 4 – 6 p.m. and is not allowed after 10 p.m. Fore
Rive Siphon truck traffic in Idlewell is prohbited between 7:30 and 8:30
a.m. and 2:15 – 4:30 p.m.
CONTACT:
Leonard Cawley ,
Public Affairs – (617) 788-4687