Buckland Green Streets is a project initiated by the Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) with funding from a MassDEP 604b grant to assess the potential for Green Infrastructure (GI) stormwater management in Shelburne Falls on the Buckland side. The goals of the project are to improve water quality in the Deerfield River, to help the village and surrounding watershed become more resilient to increasingly frequent and intense precipitation, and to mitigate the flood hazards resulting from heavy rain events. FRCOG staff worked with the Town Highway and Wastewater Superintendents to develop a stormwater management concept for Crittenden Hill Road where GI can be implemented in conjunction with planned municipal road work currently needed to repair the road and address erosion hazards that threaten residential properties and steep slopes flanking the road. The concept proposes to retrofit and utilize an abandoned water tank and implement a new bioretention basin to capture and clean large volumes of stormwater before it enters the storm sewer and outlets to the Deerfield River. This concept design will be developed to 25% with cost estimates by a Professional Engineer. FRCOG will also develop a guide for the Town to continue to integrate GI in its future transportation projects, including an assessment method and links to design and funding sources that will serve as a resource for other towns.
For more information please check out the presentation below, or contact Helena Farrell, Land Use and Natural Resources Planner, at HFarrell@frcog.org or 413-774-3167 ext. 134.
