Client

City of Passaic

Location

Passaic, NJ

Completion Date

2020

Markets

Government

Division

Engineering

Discipline

Environmental Sciences, Highway & Roadway Design, Program Management, Site/Civil, Structural Engineering, Survey, Traffic Engineering

Dundee Island Park is located on a 6.7-acre parcel of land along the western bank of the Passaic River in the City of Passaic.  This state-of-the-art project was a $12 million collaboration between Passaic County, the City of Passaic, and the Trust for Public Land.

  The park’s amenities included an amphitheater, a boat launch, a community garden, an elevated concession stand and field house with restrooms, fitness equipment, a playground, site lighting, a river walk, a sculpture park, a soccer field, and a spray park.   

Passaic County engaged Boswell to provide professional engineering services to advance the schematic plans to final design and to perform regulatory permitting and oversight services during the development and construction phase of the park.  Its location – being in a floodway, floodplain, and holding historic status – presented unique challenges that Boswell engineers were able to mitigate through thoughtful planning and consideration of impacts to the environment, including minimizing excavation to reduce the cost of the disposal of ID-27 material.  Numerous public meetings solicited input and support from residents regarding the project’s design.