Wastewater Treatment Facility Resilience Fund

In 2018, Rhode Island voters approved the Green Economy and Clean Water Bond referendum which provided funding support for the Wastewater Treatment Resilience Fund (WWTFRF).  Using a competitive grant process, the WWTFRF provides funding to municipalities and/or quasi-state entities to protect government-owned wastewater collection systems and treatment facilities against the effects of climate change and flooding.  WWTFRF projects will harden, relocate, repair/replace, and/or provide redundancy infrastructure at these wastewater treatment facilities.  Approximately $5,000,000 of funding was provided in the initial round of WWTFRF grant projects. 

Current projects include:

 

City/Town/Entity

Project Title

Barrington

Barrington/Warren Joint Portable Generators - Barrington

Cranston

Installation of Watertight Doors at the Pontiac, Worthington, and Youlden Pump Stations

East Greenwich

Construction of WWTF resiliency measures and emergency generator replacement

East Providence

Silver Street Pump Station Floodproofing

Narragansett

Scarborough WWTF Outfall Groin Restoration

Newport

Long Wharf Pump Station Flood Protection

New Shoreham

Ocean Avenue Pump Station

Quonset Development Corporation

Quonset WWTF Resiliency Action Plan, Phase R1

Smithfield

Smithfield WWTF – Grit Removal System

South Kingstown

Middlebridge Pump Station Resiliency/Hardening

Warren

Barrington/Warren Joint Portable Generators - Warren

Warren

Wood Street Pump Station Resiliency Improvements

Westerly

New Canal Street Pump Station Flood Retaining Wall

Woonsocket

Woonsocket WWTF Building Hardening

At this time, the WWTFRF grant program is not accepting proposals.  For more information, contact:

Sean McCormick (sean.mccormick@dem.ri.gov) or 401-537-4254.

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