Drainage plan

The Alewife-path construction team has a plan to prevent water spilling down Cottage Ave. from eroding the entrance and puddling on the path.

The new plan would direct rainwater around the path into the swales on either side. (Detail.)

Erosion control?

This morning Wayne Chouinard, Arlington’s new Town Engineer, met briefly with me at the Cottage Ave. entrance to the Alewife Greenway Path for a quick tour of the erosion and drainage problems there.

The view East Southeast from Cottage Ave. includes a persistent puddle of water (background) and an eroded cut in the new path (foreground).

The path has been under construction since last July and the entrance is not finished yet.

An erosion of confidence

Rainwater has again washed away parts of the new stone-dust entryway to the Alewife Greenway at Cottage Ave.