Public Meeting Notice  Sumner/Callahan Vent Building Upgrade - East Boston virtual public information meeting

These meetings will provide an opportunity for the public to hear an overview of the Sumner/Callahan Vent Building Upgrade Project including project overview and schedule and community and traffic impacts. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and offer comments. The project entails an upgrade to the tunnels’ dated pump stations and vent buildings to improve system reliability and safety and to minimize future maintenance while extending their service life. The project will also provide backup power by adding generators to power life-safety systems during loss of utility power. This work will require 20 overnight Sumner tunnel closures and frequent overnight lane reductions to the Sumner and Callahan Tunnels starting in 2021.

All residents, abutters, local business owners, and interested commuters are invited to attend. All attendees who sign into the meeting and provide an email address will be entered into the project’s email database to receive construction updates. Please note the presentation will be the same at both meetings. Spanish interpretation will be available at both virtual meetings and meeting materials will also be available in Spanish.

Note: This meeting is accessible to people with disabilities. MassDOT provides reasonable accommodations and/or language assistance free of charge upon request (e.g interpreters in American Sign Language and languages other than English, live captioning, videos, assistive listening devices and alternate material formats), as available. For accommodation or language assistance, please contact MassDOT’s Chief Diversity & Civil Rights Officer by phone at (857) 368-8580, TTD/TTY at (857) 266-0603, fax (857) 368-0602 or by email to MASSDOT.CivilRights@dot.state.ma.us. Requests should be made as soon as possible prior to the meeting, and for more difficult to arrange services including sign-language, CART or language translation or interpretation, requests should be made at least ten business days before the meeting.