create solutions that maximize value

---

I have been serving New England clients over the last 37 years to develop innovative solutions to complex water resource problems.  My expertise is helping communities create a vision that maximizes project value and then guide them through project implementation.  My experience includes projects that range from smaller green stormwater infrastructure projects to large scale flood resilience projects that require tens of millions of dollars to implement.

The experience below summarizes some of my recent experience working some of which has been from working for other firms.

I have worked with many Southern New England communities and NGO's starting with conceiving a project and carrying the project through project funding, design, permitting and construction.   This includes previous work with NGOs at varying scales such as The Nature Conservancy, Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, and Cape Cod Conservation District; state agencies such as the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration and Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Projection and numerous municipalities.   I have helped communities position and secure many tens of millions of dollars of state and federal grant funding and know how to best position projects for that funding.

My experience began with one of the first community flood resilience plans prepared in New England for the City of New Bedford.    My expertise is to develop hybrid design approaches (gray and nature-based) that best positions a community for state/federal funding as well maximizes project value for the community.    I have led several watershed-wide to neighborhood scale flood resilience projects from planning through implementation in Souther New England.  Some examples include the Pocasset River Watershed Plan which is a $60 million program to make a 22-square mile urban watershed in Rhode Island resilient to the 100-year flood and the Easton Pond Dam Resilience Project for the City of Newport, RI whioch is a $40 million program to improve the resilience of critical drinking water infrastucture.

My water resources experience began in the 1980s focused on stormwater management modeling and design.  Since then that experience has evolved to include a range of traditional and non-traditional design and funding approaches.  My expertise is highlighted by my co-authoring several state-wide and municipal planning and design manuals including the Connecticut Stormwater Quality Manual and the RIDOT Linear Stormwater Manual.

I have conceived, planned, developed and then helped to implement a number of Green Stormwater Infrastructure projects to solve both water quality to street flooding problems as well as create community by developing features such as multi-modal paths to traffic calming to new open space.  Projects include one of the first green streets in New England (Water Street, Warren, RI), a green infrastructure parkway (Truman Drive, Woonsocket, RI)., and a green infrastructure parklet in the Olneyville neighborhood in Providence, RI.

My experience includes some of the largest ecological restoration projects in New England.  These included the Herring River salt marsh restoration project in Wellfleet, MA where about 1,200 acres of marsh is being restored, to some of the first thin layer deposition projects were developed in New England for the State of Rhode Island to restore degraded marsh, to the Blackstone River fish passage project which is the largest fish passage program in New England today.