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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Impact",sans-serif;color:#00457A">Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#00457A">235 Promenade Street | Providence, RI 02908 | 401.222.4700 |</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">
</span><a href="http://www.dem.ri.gov"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF">www.dem.ri.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:blue">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#00457A">| @RhodeIslandDEM</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">CONTACT:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> Mike Healey, 401-258-0787
<b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Michael.Healey@dem.ri.gov"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF">Michael.Healey@dem.ri.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
Friday, March 24, 2023</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">DEM AWARDS MORE THAN $100,000 TO EIGHT COMMUNITY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">BOAT PUMPOUT FACILITIES TO KEEP COASTAL WATERS CLEAN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today announces the award of $104,769 in matching grants to eight communities and marinas to help expand and maintain boat pumpout facilities and keep coastal waters across Rhode Island clean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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DEM applies for federal funds to buy or replace CVA equipment for use by these entities to offer free pumpouts. Since 1994, DEM has awarded over $2.5 million in CVA grants.<s><o:p></o:p></s></span></p>
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<p class="MsoCaption" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:windowtext">One of five mobile pumpout boats on Block Island.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">“Most of us know it’s not right to discharge wastewater directly from our boats into Narragansett Bay or the ocean. In fact, it’s illegal to pump waste within three nautical miles of
the Rhode Island coast,” said DEM Director Terry Gray. “DEM works with municipal and marine trades partners to prevent the discharge of boat sewage, which impairs water quality by introducing bacteria and other pathogens and chemicals that are harmful to humans
and marine life. The support of the US Fish and Wildlife Service Clean Vessel Act helps accomplish this by subsidizing pumpout facilities that empower thousands of Rhode Island recreational boaters to do their part to keep the bay and coastal waters clean.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Boat sewage can threaten water quality by introducing bacteria and other pathogens, excess nutrients, and chemicals that are harmful to humans and marine life. In 1998, Rhode Island became
the first state in the nation to receive a statewide “no discharge” designation from the US Environmental Protection Agency that prohibits boaters from discharging sewage into local waterways.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The 2023 grant recipients include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Barrington
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Yacht Club: $1,943 for the maintenance of a stationary pumpout on the Barrington River<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xxxmsonormal" style="color:#201F1E;margin-right:31.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span class="xxxnormaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Providence Marina</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:
<span class="xxxnormaltextrun">$1,100 </span></span><span class="xxxeop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">for</span></span><span class="xxxnormaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
the maintenance of a stationary pumpout on the Providence River</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xxxmsonormal" style="color:#201F1E;margin-right:31.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Safe Harbor Cove Haven Marina (East Providence): $37,420 for the replacement of an existing stationary pumpout on Bullock Cove<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xxxmsonormal" style="color:#201F1E;margin-right:31.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Safe Harbor Greenwich Bay Marina: $5,925 for the maintenance of existing stationary and mobile pumpouts on Greenwich Bay<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xxxmsonormal" style="color:#201F1E;margin-right:31.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Safe Harbor Wickford Cove Marina: $1,017 for operating costs of an existing stationary pumpout on Wickford Cove<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xxxmsonormal" style="color:#201F1E;margin-right:31.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Town of Jamestown: $27,000 for the construction of a new stationary pumpout and the maintenance of two existing stationary pumpouts in Jamestown<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xxxmsonormal" style="color:#201F1E;margin-right:31.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Town of New Shoreham: $7,500 for maintenance of three existing mobile pumpout boats in Great Salt Pond<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xxxmsonormal" style="color:#201F1E;margin-right:31.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span class="xxxnormaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Westerly Yacht Club:
</span></span><span class="xxxnormaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">$22,864</span></span><span class="xxxeop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">for
the replacement of an existing stationary <span class="xxxspellingerror">pumpout on the Pawcatuck River</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">There are currently 15 pumpout boats and 59 facilities located across Narragansett Bay and coastal waters. Many existing facilities require repair and upgrades as they have
exceeded their useful life expectancy since initial construction. All pumpout facilities must be kept fully operational to adequately meet demand and help prevent sewage discharges into RI waters. (Here is a
</span><a href="http://www.dem.ri.gov/maps/mapfile/pumpmap.pdf"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF">map</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> of marine pumpout facilities.) The grants require a 25% funding
match and funded facilities must be available to all boaters. In addition, grant recipients agree to charge no more than $5 per 30 gallons of sewage pumped.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Some 40,000 boats are registered in Rhode Island, and the state welcomes many thousands more visiting boats each year. Last year, a total volume of over 600,000 gallons of
sewage was pumped out at these facilities and diverted from directly entering Rhode Island’s coastal waters.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Along with fishing and many other commercial and recreational interests, Rhode Island shellfish harvesters benefit from CVA pumpout grants. For more information on RI shellfish harvesting,
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