PROVIDENCE – A former project superintendent of the nearly quarter-billion-dollar federally funded 6/10 Interchange Construction Project was sentenced today for intentionally misleading officials as to the origin and the potential contaminant composition of dozens of truckloads of railroad ballast (stone) and dirt imported to the project, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
Dennis Ferreira, a former employee of Barletta Heavy Division, Inc., a Massachusetts construction company responsible for the construction of the Route 6/10 Interchange Project, previously admitted to a federal judge that, in July 2020, he falsely reported to the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) the origin of 93 truckloads of railroad ballast imported to the 6/10 Project from Massachusetts; 52 truckloads of dirt imported to the 6/10 Project from the Pawtucket/Central Falls Rail Station Project Barletta was undertaking; and that he was responsible for a false report submitted to RIDOT by Barletta stating that the stone imported from Massachusetts had been tested and met environmental criteria as required in a Soil and Materials Management Plan (SMMP) prepared by RIDOT.
According to documents filed with the court, Ferreira repeatedly mislead RIDOT and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) into believing that stone imported from Massachusetts to the 6/10 Project had been tested and met established environmental criteria when, in fact, the stone had...
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