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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#00457A">235 Promenade Street | Providence, RI 02908 | 401.222.4700 |</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.dem.ri.gov"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF">www.dem.ri.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#00457A">| @RhodeIslandDEM</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Jay Wegimont, DEM: 401-302-8316 Friday, Jan. 20, 2023<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk501437073"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">DEM ISSUES DRAFT WATER QUALITY RESTORATION STUDIES FOR
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk501437073"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">TIVERTON AND LITTLE COMPTON WATERBODIES AND OPENS<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">WORKSHOP SET FOR JAN. 30<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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is soliciting comments on studies detailing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) developed for bacteria impairments of the Nonquit Pond tributaries in Tiverton and Little Compton – Borden Brook, Quaker Creek, and Tributary to Nonquit Pond – and will hold a virtual
public workshop on Monday, Jan. 30. At the workshop, DEM representatives will describe the state’s water quality assessment process and TMDL development for the Nonquit Pond tributaries. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Virtual public workshop to discuss Nonquit Pond tributaries TMDLs</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">To join the public hearing using your phone for audio, click on “Join by Phone” and follow
the information on the screen to dial in. All participants will be muted upon joining the meeting. Following a presentation on the results, DEM will take questions and comments via voice or chat. To make a comment during the hearing, participants should click
the “Raise Hand” button on the screen or type into the chat, which will be monitored.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">All interested parties are invited to submit comments on the draft TMDLs by Wednesday, March
1. Written comments can be submitted<sup> </sup>to Skip Viator (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0066FF"><a href="mailto:skip.viator@dem.ri.gov"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">skip.viator@dem.ri.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">)
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0066FF"><a href="https://dem.ri.gov/environmental-protection-bureau/water-resources/research-monitoring/restoration-studies-tmdl-documents"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">can
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">DEM’s Office of Water Resources assesses the quality of the state’s surface waters by comparing
available monitoring data against the state’s established water quality criteria to determine whether the waters are suitable for such uses as swimming, fish/shellfish consumption, and aquatic life. As part of the process, DEM identifies surface waters that
do not meet water quality criteria for which a water quality restoration study, known as a TMDL, is required in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act. The tributaries to Nonquit Pond were determined to be impaired for bacteria, and a TMDL to bring the
waters back into compliance with water quality criteria was developed under Rhode Island’s statewide bacteria core document.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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