The Narragansett Bay Commission has received a loan from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s WIFIA (Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act) Program to the amount of $268.7 million for Phase III of the NBC’s Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Abatement Program. The loan was announced on September 21, 2019 at the NBC’s Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility. The NBC’s WIFIA loan will help to finance Phase III of the Commission’s federally-mandated CSO project, estimated at $760 million. The centrepiece of Phase III is a 30-ft diameter, 2.2 mile-long deep rock tunnel under Pawtucket and Central Falls to capture and store storm-related sewage overflows and transport those flows to the NBC’s Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility for full treatment. The project will protect the water quality in Narragansett Bay, contributing to reducing annual combined sewer overflow volumes by 98% and achieving an 80% reduction in shellfish bed enclosures. Click here and us/37 for tunnelbuilder archive. Also visit http://www.narrabay.com. 38/19.


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