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.
Services Snapshot
Tighe & Bond is providing the Town of Oak Bluffs with design, bid, and construction phase services in support of this project. The scope of work includes topographic and bathymetric survey, subsurface investigation, wave climatology study, constructability review, regulatory approval revisions, preliminary and final design, construction administration, community outreach, and grant administration.
