Cos Cob Park Wins Sustainability, Environment Award

Greenwich, CT- The Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers named Cos Cob Park as the 2016 Sustainability Ace Award and Environmental Ace Award of Merit winner.

The park was previously the coal-fired Cos Cob Power Plant and was designated as a brownfield site.

The 9.4-acre site includes a synthetic turf athletic field. meadow, a playscape and a 9/11 memorial among other amenities.

The Department of Public Works guided the remediation and revelopment efforts and worked with AECOM (Environmental Design Engineers), Milone and MacBroom (Landscape Architects) and RC&D, Inc. (Contractor).

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(CSCE). The Cos Cob Park coastal brownfield remediation project is the example of an ACE Award-worthy project. The project team, led by the Department of Public Works EngineeringDivision, demonstrated an extraordinary level of innovation in design and implementation, as well as an ability to overcome significant challenges.

The Cos Cob Park stands out for its benefits to the community and the effort of the project team both in the design and construction to better understand the full extent of on-site contamination along with the opportunities and constraints for installation of the most feasible capping materials and methods.

The goal of transforming a brownfield site into a public park that would provide active and passive recreation opportunities was achieved. The Town has received many compliments from the local community expressing appreciation for the project and the transformation of the site.

Photo by Barbara Heins