SumCo Eco-Contracting is a self-performing heavy site civil construction firm focused on ecological and environmental improvement projects. Founded in 2006, we have completed hundreds of such projects across the northeastern United States.

Every day we work hard to help create a more resilient and sustainable world by delivering outstanding project outcomes benefiting people, communities, and the natural world.  We appreciate our staff, clients, A/E/C partners, regulators and other stakeholders with whom we collaborate.  We are conflict-free constructors- we do not offer design, engineering, surveying or permitting services, relying on the core competencies of our project partners on these critical tasks.  Areas of construction focus include:

Dam Removals/Modifications  |  River Restorations  | Fish Passage  | Coastal Protection  |   Freshwater Wetlands and Salt Marshes  |  Mechanical and Hydraulic Dredging  |  Culverts, Bridges and Boardwalks  |  Park Construction  |  Landscapes Installation   |  Native Plantings and Seedings  |  Invasive Species Management  |  Erosion Controls  |  Bioengineered Stabilization  |  Drainage Improvements  |   Stormwater BMPs  |  Site Redevelopment  |  Site Remediation  |  UST Removals. 

Headquartered in Peabody, Massachusetts our Team Leads and crews reside throughout the Northeast.

 

Most Recent Awards

2019 ACEC/MA- Gold Award

Project: Upper Roberts Meadow Reservoir Dam Breach and Stream Restoration (Northampton, Massachusetts)

Client: City of Northampton

Designer: GZA Geoenvironmental

2018 ACEC/MA- Silver Award, and Environmental Business International’s Project Merit Award

Project: Tidmarsh Farms & Wetland Restoration (Plymouth, Massachusetts)*

Client: MA Division of Ecological Restoration & Tidmarsh Farms

Designer: Inter-Fluve

2018 Environmental Business Council of New England, Nicholas Humber Environmental-Energy Award for Outstanding Collaboration

Project: Senator Joseph Finnegan Park at Port Norfolk

Award Description: In Recognition of the Outstanding Collaboration Resulting in the Comprehensive Remediation and Transformation of the Contaminated Shaffer Paper Site into the Senator Joseph Finnegan Park at Port Norfolk.

Award Recipients:

  • Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (Client)
  • GEI Consultants, Inc.
  • Halvorson Design Partnership, Inc.
  • Epsilon Associates, Inc.
  • Exponent
  • DeRosa Environmental Consulting, Inc.
  • SumCo Eco-Contracting, LLC (Peformed all remediation and construction)

2018 Society for Ecological Restoration- New England Chapter Project Award

Project – Eel River Headwaters Restoration

Design Lead – Inter-Fluve

Owner/Client – Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts

Supporting organizations:

  • Massachusetts Dept. of Ecological Restoration (DER)
  • USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
  • American Rivers
  • The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  • Mass Audubon
  • USFWS – Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
  • Massachusetts Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership
  • Horsley Witten Group
  • AD Makepeace Company

2017 Engineering Excellence Gold Medal, ACEC/New Hampshire

Great Dam Removal & River Restoration

Designer: VHB

Client: Town of Exeter, NH