Peabody Trail Reopens After 6-Week Project To Improve Drainage

PEABODY, MA — The Kristen Crowley Memorial Trail in Peabody is back open after a six-week project to repair drainage and mitigate erosion on the trailhead.

Money from the state Department of Transportation's Shared Streets and Spaces Grant program was used to fund the project that was contracted through T. Ford.

"During the past six weeks, some significant drainage improvements were completed on the trail," Peabody Mayor Ted Bettencourt said. "These will lessen the effects of trail erosion and eliminate ponding issues which had affected the area."

The work included the construction of a swale along the trail in areas that have experienced flooding, drainage upgrades to areas of the path that were often the site of ponding, trail upgrades to mitigate erosion and resurfacing of the trail.

The trailhead is part of the East Coast Greenway, which spans 15 states, 450 cities and towns and 3,000 miles from Maine to Florida.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)