按钮

查尔斯“查理”按钮，who, as chief engineer and deputy chief operating officer of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), managed significant infrastructure built as part of the court-ordered $3-billion cleanup of Boston Harbor in the 1990s, died on March 17 at age 70.

He told ENR in 1997 that initial local uproar over the harbor cleanup's cost impact on sewer rates changed after the project delivered "a tangible result—a clean harbor—and seeing ... white wakes behind boats.''

在线itu告说，死亡原因是癌症。

巴顿（Button）也是波士顿水和下水道委员会的首席工程师，他管理了该地区饮用水系统的重大升级，为超过200万人提供服务。后来，他加入了马萨诸塞州纳蒂克的Rizzo Associates Inc.，担任首席工程师。

But he was recruited back to MWRA in 2005 to oversee combined sewer overflow and drinking water upgrade projects.

按钮also held leadership roles in local chapters of the American Public Works Association and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

波士顿港协会主席维维恩·李（Vivien Li）在致敬中，纽扣是受托人，他说：“查理在波士顿，尤其是在我们的滨水区和港口中都能感受到查理的影响。”她说，他十年的委员会首席工程师于1988年结束了，他是“在环境意识上提高的时候，在1970年的第一个地球日和1972年的《联邦水污染控制法》修正案之后，查理开始翻译公众的环境涉及[机构]正在进行的工作。”

According to Li, Button's oversight of treatment plant and conveyance infrastructure construction for MWRA "resulted in our Harbor being one of the cleanest urban waterways in the country." The project was completed on-time and under budget. "That is what I call success!" said Rep. Joe Moakley in a tribute to Button in the U.S. Congressional Record in 1998.

In her tribute, Li says Button also was key to environmental approval of subsequent large infrastructure projects in Boston as a member of the city's Conservation Commission. "Charlie spent thousands of hours reviewing projects including the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, MBTA Silver Line Waterfront route, Muddy River Restoration Project, and numerous others," she says. "He also mentored young professionals, and encouraged women to pursue careers in engineering."

Adds MWRA Executive Director Frederick Laskey: "Our city is so much better for all that he did."