CRWA Comments on the Climate Implications of Allston Multimodal Project in Daily Free Press
Earlier this month, Massachusetts was granted $335.4 in federal funding for the Allston Multimodal I-90 Project from the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods program. What does this mean for the Charles River?
CRWA Senior Climate Resilience Associate Dira Johanif spoke with the Daily Free Press about the implications of this decade-long project: “This design currently would really only treat 35% of the impervious cover as resulted from this project,” Johanif said. “That can cause stormwater runoff going into the river and impacting water quality.”
Johanif said the addition of impervious surfaces, which cannot effectively absorb rainfall, will increase “the urban heat island for Boston and for Allston-Brighton … [and] the feeling of extreme heat.”
