Porter Street Outfall Project
Boston, Massachusetts


Project Date: 8/92-9/98

Owner:
Massachusetts
Highway Department

Project Engineers/Managers:
Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff



"This fast-track project involved extensive underground earth support including driving sheetpile and drilling caissons."

-Will Spielvogel, Vice President, Jay Cashman, Inc.




 

Construction of this combined sewer outfall was the critical first step in making way for the Ted Williams Tunnel.

  Project Highlights

Porter Street Outfall Project
Boston, Massachusetts

• Approximately 1 mile of cut and cover outfall construction.

• Large load bearing slurry wall foundations were replaced with precast post-tensioned culvert sections supported by
108 48” diameter caissons.

• Erected a 300 foot post-tensioned bridge.

Poured approximately 800 linear feet of cement-bentonite cutoff wall.

• One of the first projects in the Boston area to utilize a cement-bentonite backfill to eliminate the problem of water migration.

• Relocated a taxiway blastwall.

• Relocated a heliport and new utilities.

• Provided alternate foundation system & final structure design value engineering which provided both time and cost savings for the Owner.



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