Harvard University has agreed to build a new public boat dock that will improve paddler access to the Charles River.
As part of an agreement with state officials and environmental advocates, Harvard will build the new public dock at the state Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Herter Park in Brighton, Massachusetts.
As a condition of its permits to make improvements to the long-standing Weld and Newell boathouses, Harvard will design, permit, construct, and pay to maintain a roughly 200-foot-long floating dock that will be accessible to the public and support high school rowing teams in the Boston area.
The agreement allows Harvard to keep its own boathouses and sections of the river private.