Situated within half a block of Manhattan’s East River, the Metropolitan Hospital requires nearly half a mile of flood protection systems as tall as 12 ft to safeguard against future 500-year storms and an estimated 3-ft increase in sea level rise and freeboard.
The projects at the Cross and Winyah stations in South Carolina were designed to treat flue gas desulfurization effluent and meet the U.S. EPA’s 2020 effluent limitation guidelines for arsenic, selenium, mercury and nitrates.
Managing construction of new pedestrian and cycling pathways at the water’s edge in Manhattan brought no shortage of challenges, said the project team.
Originally built in 1958, the Priest Rapids Dam is a composite structure with a center-channel spillway and powerhouse and a left and right embankment.
The project's program included efforts to sequence and stage building work to allow passenger vehicle and bus traffic to access each terminal throughout the $209-million, four-year project.
Part of a larger East River Waterfront esplanade, the in-water structure fills in a gap in Manhattan’s Waterfront Greenway, a planned continuous 32.5-mile loop around the island.