A former employee for a Massachusetts contractor leading the largest design-build project in the Rhode Island Dept. of Transportation’s history pleaded not guilty in Providence County Superior Court on Feb. 7 to illegally dumping toxic fill at the Providence-area jobsite. His plea follows a separate Feb. 1 not guilty plea by his former employer, Canton, Mass.-based Barletta Heavy Division Inc.
Barletta and Dennis Ferreira, a former Barletta superintendent, allegedly illegally dumped thousands of tons of contaminated fill on the $410 million Route 6/10 highway interchange project starting in July 2020.
