Boston Riser Project – Effluent Outfall Diffusers
Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
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Client | Massachusetts Water Resources Authority |
Contract Amount | $77,000,000 |
Work related to this project included the installation of 55, 250’ long, 30-inch diameter and 1¾-inch wall thickness FRP risers, lowered and grouted into a predrilled shaft in the seabed. Each riser was capped with a diffuser consisting of a concrete base latched onto a steel casing grouted to the bedrock, an 8 port FRP manifold cast into concrete, a concrete ringwall and an HDPEX protective dome.