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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Evan LaCross, 401-799-0100 Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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RI –<span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:#404040;background:white">The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today announced that they have awarded $3,176,918 in grants to local and state governments, non-profit organizations,
and community groups. The grants are funded by the </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://dem.ri.gov/environmental-protection-bureau/water-resources/financial-assistance/narragansett-bay-and-water"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF">Narragansett
Bay and Watersheds Restoration Fund (BWRF)</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#404040;background:white">which received $3 million in the voter-approved
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://dem.ri.gov/green-bond-2022-green-bond"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF;background:white">2022 Green Bond</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#404040;background:white">.
Additional funding for this round of projects was sourced from previous BWRF bonds.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#404040">DEM received over 30 grant proposal applications seeking financial assistance under the Request for Proposals (RFP</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF">)
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://dem.ri.gov/press-releases/dem-announces-3-million-grant-funding-now-available-projects-improve-water-quality"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF">released
in December 2023</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#404040">.
<span style="background:white">The projects are divided into three categories: </span>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Projects that improve stormwater management and abate stormwater pollution with emphasis on green infrastructure, capital projects that strengthen local stormwater
management programs, and projects that implement a Best Management Practice (BMP) identified in an approved stormwater management plan or water quality restoration plan are encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Projects that reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flooding in coastal or inland areas and enhance natural ecosystem functions. Eligible projects include
the restoration of floodplains, removal of impervious surfaces and re-vegetation in flood-prone areas, and culvert replacements, among others.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Projects that address aquatic invasive plant management, particularly in lakes, riparian buffer restoration activities or other action to restore aquatic habitats.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#404040">The 2024 grant recipients include:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#404040"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Town of Barrington – Water Way End-of-Road Retrofit</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
<b>($44,000):</b></span></i><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Barrington, in partnership with Save the Bay, will retrofit an existing stormwater management structure to better address stormwater pollution and improve regular maintenance.
The retrofit will include installing tree trench BMPs in the drainage area to reduce the volume of stormwater runoff and a sediment forebay at the end of Water Way.
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Bonnet Shores Fire District – Wesquage Pond ($75,000)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
The Bonnet Shores Fire District will complete planning, design, and permitting for a limited phragmites management program and the future construction of hydraulic and stormwater controls associated with Bonnet Point Road to flooding management of peak flows
and mitigate flooding. One aspect of the project involves equalization pipes within Wesquage Pond in to provide additional outlet capacity during peak flows to Narragansett Bay.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Bristol County Water Authority (BCWA) – Upper & Lower Kickemuit Dam Removal ($100,000)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
BCWA is in the process of removing the Lower and Upper Kickemuit Dams in Warren to restore the Kickemuit River closer to natural conditions while improving water quality and aquatic habitat conditions. This funding coincides with a Section 319 Nonpoint Source
Grant ($400,000) from DEM towards this project. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Town of Burrillville – Vacuum Truck ($255,000)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
Burrillville will purchase a vacuum truck to remove debris from the Town’s municipal stormwater system. Regular removal of debris reduces pollutant loading to receiving waterways and improves the working life of the infrastructure.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">T<b>own of Hopkinton – High-Efficiency Street Sweeper ($166,257)</b>:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
Hopkinton will purchase a high-efficiency street sweeper to remove debris from roadways recommended for rural road conditions. Removing debris from roadways reduces the volume that reaches waterways and improves maintenance of stormwater infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Town of Middletown – Green End Stormwater and Flooding Improvements ($400,000)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
This project will install new stormwater BMPs to intercept and treat runoff from Miantonomi Avenue which discharges into North Easton Pond and replace an undersized culvert at Green End Avenue that has caused localized flooding issues for decades. North Easton
Pond is part of the Newport Drinking Water Supply System. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Town of Middletown – Berkeley Avenue Culvert ($400,000)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
This project would replace an undersized culvert on Berkeley Avenue with a new culvert that improves watercourse continuity and aquatic habitat, management of peak flows, and resiliency of inland habitats and community infrastructure.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">City of Newport – CSO Disconnections ($400,000)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
The City of Newport will disconnect stormwater connections to the existing combined sewer-stormwater overflow (CSO) system reducing flows into Newport Harbor and re-route runoff to a new separate new stormwater system that will provide treatment via infiltration
via green infrastructure along Bellevue Avenue. <span style="color:#5B9BD5"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">City of Pawtucket – Daggett Avenue Green Infrastructure ($400,000)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
Pawtucket will install stormwater green infrastructure along Daggett Avenue to reduce runoff volume that will result in improved water quality in the nearby Ten Mile River and less flooding in the immediate area.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management – Pawtuxet Depot Floodplain Restoration ($110,000)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
DEM’s Division of Planning and Development will restore floodplain habitat and create public recreational access to the Pawtuxet River at a site in Cranston that was previously used as a storage area. The project will remove approximately 20,000 square feet
of impervious surface and restore 4.25 acres of floodplain habitat. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Town of South Kingstown – Indian Run Brook Restoration</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
<b>($66,350):</b></span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> South Kingstown will mitigate stormwater impacts in the impaired Indian Run Brook as it passes through the town-owned property between the Neighborhood
Guild and Village Green Park. The project would remove impervious surfaces and install stormwater green infrastructure BMPs.<b><i>
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The Town of South Kingstown is receiving this funding to support a second-year herbicide treatment for the invasive aquatic plant Hydrilla in Indian Lake. The first-year treatment was organized by DEM and was funded by a separate United States Fish and Wildlife
Service (USFWS) grant. This project is deemed a priority to control the population to prevent wider spread of this aggressive invasive plant.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Town of Warren – Jamiel’s Park Landfill Capping and Shoreline Restoration ($350,000</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">):</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
Jamiel’s Park is a town-owned 12.5-acre property that offers recreational and green spaces in a Brownfield location that previously served as a private landfill. Warren will use funding for Phase III of a long-term project designed to cap and stabilize the
former landfill with the following goals: (1) improving water quality in Belcher Cove; (2) reducing coastal erosion; (3) reducing coastal and inland flooding; and (4) mitigating further marsh degradation along the Palmer River.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council (WRWC) – Lower Woonasquatucket Native Riparian Habitat Restoration ($27,898):
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">WRWC will use funding to address invasive species at the Cathedral Art Metal Company, Inc. and areas along Promenade/Kinsley area of the Woonasquatucket River and restore the
areas with native plants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council – Manton Streambank Restoration ($227,413)</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
WRWC will use funding to stabilize and restore approximately 700 linear feet of eroded riverbank along the Johnston/Providence boundary. DEM has awarded WRWC a Section 319 Nonpoint Source Grant ($224,000) towards this project. In addition, WRWC has secured
significant outside funding in order to complete the overall project. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">DEM has also awarded $198,815 in BWRF grant funding to projects to manage and treat aquatic invasive plants
in Rhode Island lakes and ponds. Additional information on these projects can be found on
</span><a href="https://dem.ri.gov/environmental-protection-bureau/water-resources/financial-assistance/narragansett-bay-and-water"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0066FF">DEM's BWRF webpage</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">.
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