By their nature, wastewater treatment plants that service coastal communities are vulnerable to storm surges and floods.
The town of Hull, Massachusetts, on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor, is particularly at risk. Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on two sides with a front door elevation of 12 feet, the Hull Water Pollution Control Facility has been affected by several major storms over the last 40 years, including major townwide floods.
Upon entering a 10-year contract to operate Hull’s treatment plant in 2015, Woodard & Curran sought to change the facility’s mindset about storms and wet-weather events. With
