 The Fort Point Channel connects the Financial District with the South Boston Seaport to the south and Boston’s neighborhoods to the west. For years the Fort Point Channel has been considered an industrial backwater with decayed infrastructure, nearly no public access, and poor water quality.
Today, things have changed. Working with advocates, activists, the private landowners, the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Children’s Museum, Save the Harbor/Save the Bay chaired an award winning planning partnership that developed – and has permitted – the dramatic Fort Point Channel Watersheet Activation Plan [2,007 KB] to create the "next great place in Boston" on the Fort Point Channel.
For the plan to work, we have to be able to use the Channel – for small boats and other recreational activities that require contact with the water. Unfortunately, the Channel is currently unsafe for human contact nearly 100 days a year.
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is working with the City, the abutters, residents and the Friends of Fort Point Channel to formalize the strategy to implement the plan.
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