Protecting the Shoreline, While Re-Opening a Closed Road
The Town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts engaged our engineers to design a replacement for several deteriorated slope and shoreline protection structures which had near East Chop Drive. Tighe & Bond is serving as the prime engineer with a team that includes Woods Hole Group and Blakelee Arpaia Chapman.
Approximately half a mile of East Chop Drive has been closed for almost a decade due to deterioration of the slope and shoreline protection that supports the roadway. The Town received grant funding from the FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program, as well as the State of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), to reconstruct the shoreline protection. The roadway runs along the northeast shoreline of East Chop Bluff, sitting atop a 30-LF to 50-LF-high sand slope protected at the toe by a failing timber bulkhead and stone revetment.
Once complete, the roadway will be reopened to the public, and residents will have a new, ADA accessible pathway to access the water.
