A $92 million upgrade at the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility has created an ideal location for Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Public Works to install an osprey nesting platform.
Part of the upgrade converted the plant’s overhead electrical service on the south side of Peirce Island to an underground service on the north side. “That made several utility poles available,” says Terry Desmarais, city engineer. “We saw a good opportunity to locate the platform on one of them and help minimize the overall impact on the island.”
Great locationPortsmouth had been looking for a home for the nesting platform ever since it received a
