Boston: In the 1990s, Boston sent nearly a quarter of the Big Dig’s 16 million cubic yards of soil to a burning former dump island and helped turn it into a park
Areas once linked to the old city dump were transformed with trees, shrubs and grasses. (Boston preservationa alliance photo) When Boston began work on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, better known as the Big Dig, in 1991, it was taking on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the city’s history. The project was planned to…