Public Information Transcripts - Whittier Bridge/I-95 Improvement ...

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speed on the highway and should be controlled by the
driver while they’re traveling.
The rest of them, I think I have slides
which actually address some of the issues as we go
forward. So let me keep moving here.
As we’ve been studying the
environmental impacts, we have had to basically assess
the current condition. And if you look from the
southern limit down at the Newburyport Exit 57, across
the river, 58, 59, and 60, the overall area is broken
into five watersheds or drainage areas.
Zone one is simply draining --
collecting the water at the high point, roughly here,
drains towards the river. Most of it actually in the
highway is collected into a culvert system, which
comes into the river through a 30-inch line.
And, of course, over the river, the
current bridge is designed with a scupper system where
the water drains through the collectors and drops into
the river.
Zone three, from basically the highest
point of being the railroad bridge, just north of the
interchange, all of this area here. It makes its way
back to the river either indirectly through some of
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