‘A serious wake-up call.’ Thirty years ago, this flood swamped the Green Line and changed how Boston thinks about parks.
The Muddy River flooded 30 years ago this month, and today Boston is better for it. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, a nonprofit steward of the park system named after Frederick Law Olmsted, experienced a major flood 30 years ago that led to flooding that paralyzed the Green Line and caused an estimated $100 million in damage. The disaster led to a $90 million-plus federal overhaul of the Muddy River, a 3½-mile-long waterway that meanders from Jamaica Pond to the Charles River. The restoration was part of the creation of the conservancy, which includes officials from Brookline, Boston, and the state. The project was finished around 1900 and resulted in a pastoral park around the English park of Englishmen. The flood also led to the creation and improvement of the oldest linear park in the nation.
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“It was a serious wake-up call,” said Karen Mauney-Brodek, president of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, a nonprofit steward of the park system of the same name.
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