Marine Industrial Park | Seaport

tobyjug said:
Part of Massport's planning involves upgrades to handle Panamax shipping.
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Toby -- that work by Massport -- mostly coordinating with the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the the shipping channels for the Conley Container Terminal and the Petro Terminals on Chelsea Creek -- $300M Boston Harbor Federal Deep Draft Navigation Improvement Project Preconstruction Engineering and Design (PED) in FY 2016 Appropriations

There was a plan circa 2005 for a new bulk cargo handling and warehouse facility but I believe that the general cargo facility plan is now considered to have expired with the development rights
 
BeeLine said:
Looks like Eversource believes in climate change.

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Sandy was a hell of a teacher. The power industry knows that it's not enough to sit passively and wait for FEMA to write them a check for ruined infrastructure. All those crews who had to be scrambled from all parts of the country to get the power turned back on after a natural disaster in the East Coast megalopolis were drawn from other utilities...who in turn had to pay out weeks and months of OT to their decimated crews. And all of the interconnected grid away from the disaster areas that had to shape-shift around the transmission outages was put under elevated maintenance stress, which is money out of the pockets of utilities wholly unrelated to the disaster area.

The whole industry learned from that one experience that they have more-than-ample profit motive to not get caught complacent about climate change and coastal flooding.
 
F-Line to Dudley said:
Sandy was a hell of a teacher. The power industry knows that it's not enough to sit passively and wait for FEMA to write them a check for ruined infrastructure. All those crews who had to be scrambled from all parts of the country to get the power turned back on after a natural disaster in the East Coast megalopolis were drawn from other utilities...who in turn had to pay out weeks and months of OT to their decimated crews. And all of the interconnected grid away from the disaster areas that had to shape-shift around the transmission outages was put under elevated maintenance stress, which is money out of the pockets of utilities wholly unrelated to the disaster area.

The whole industry learned from that one experience that they have more-than-ample profit motive to not get caught complacent about climate change and coastal flooding.
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The new natural gas-powered generating station at Salem is being built at 16 feet above mean seal level, of which 11 feet are intended to protect against sea level rise, storm surge, and wave height. On the east side (the open water side, there is a 15 foot berm above grade, so roughly 30 feet of protection against the highest waves in a superstorm. As the site does not front on the open ocean, would probably take a once in a millennium storm to get waves of 30 feet above MSL.
 
F-Line to Dudley said:
Sandy was a hell of a teacher. The power industry knows that it's not enough to sit passively and wait for FEMA to write them a check for ruined infrastructure. All those crews who had to be scrambled from all parts of the country to get the power turned back on after a natural disaster in the East Coast megalopolis were drawn from other utilities...who in turn had to pay out weeks and months of OT to their decimated crews. And all of the interconnected grid away from the disaster areas that had to shape-shift around the transmission outages was put under elevated maintenance stress, which is money out of the pockets of utilities wholly unrelated to the disaster area.

The whole industry learned from that one experience that they have more-than-ample profit motive to not get caught complacent about climate change and coastal flooding.
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F-Line -- "Sandy was a hell of a teacher...." --- . Good Post up to the "The whole industry learned from that one experience that they have more-than-ample profit motive to not get caught complacent about climate change and coastal flooding"

its all about DC laying the hammer on the Electric Power Industry -- FERC specifically and the insurance industry kowtowing to DC

Sandy -- however nasty -- has nothing to do with Climate Change -- it was just a combination of bad luck -- specifically where it hit and poor planning [e.g. emergency generator in-compatability]

Had the track of the 1938 Hurricane, which steamed straight up the Connecticut River Valley, but yet managed to flood downtown Providence to the 2nd floor, taken a more westerly direction into NY Harbor -- they would still be pumping out Central Park
hurricane-1938-providence.jpg

Note: you can still see the highwater mark on the wall near the ceiling in the Biltmore Hotel [building on the right]
1938hurricane.JPG
 
I'd like to apologize to the board for opening Pandora's Box to yet another climate change denial whighjack. Please feel free, mods, to auto-dump the next 2 pages on the Trash Heap of Off-topic Posts thread while I go to my room and feel shame for what I've wrought.

:rolleyes:
 
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