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Nahant Beach Reservation Rehab Project Requires Delicate Maneuvers By Jay Adams CEG CORRESPONDENT
Unless you are a seagull or a yacht, there is only one way to access Nahant Beach, Mass. — a beach with a heavily traveled causeway and public access areas in desperate need of rehabilitation. To that end, Pihl Inc., a Denmarkbased company with U.S. headquarters in Canton, Mass., is completing the seventh phase of a delicate seven-phase, $20 million, four-year beach access and rehabilitation project. The Nahant Beach Reservation Rehabilitation Project, which began in May 2010 and is expected to be completed in May 2014, has required careful digging and temporary road building to accommodate the beach-going public and to preserve the fragile and protected wetlands that surround the excavation work. It is a challenging endeavor that has required 13 subcontractors under Pihl Inc., and at least 18 supervising governmental and municipal overseeing bodies to monitor the work around the mudflats, the clam beds, the coastal wetlands, the beach and its erosion, the seawall and many other unusual environmental conditions. They all must remain undisturbed while dozens of backhoes and excavators fortify the shoreline and the new structures are being erected upon it. Working in Meticulous Phases The work had to be phased over three years not to disturb — equally — the marine life of gulls and gills or the human life of sun worshipers. This was especially tricky because the causeway is the only access to the island of Nahant. “The project consists of seven phases in order to accommodate the public in the least inconvenient matter. In the first phase, we prepared the causeway for construction, building the temporary lanes, temporary attenuators and barrels for traffic safety,” said Theis Vangsted, project engineer and
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assistant project manager. In the second phase, Pihl did all the infrastructure work — telephone, electric and drainage — on the southbound lane toward Nahant. It also performed revetment, pavement, installed granite curb, raised structures and installed guardrail. In the third phase, it moved to the northbound lane toward Lynn, Mass. and performed all the infrastructure work, paved and raised structures, according to Danté Roberto, project manager and supervisor. The fourth phase is divided into two parts. The first part of phase 4 consisted of reclaiming the temporary two lanes and some of the parking area, moving water mains and CATV, constructing retaining walls and installing drainage in the see NAHANt page 4