PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management has awarded $4.7 million in matching grants to 15 municipalities for wastewater-treatment-facility resiliency projects.
The grants announced on Monday cover 18 projects for a combined $10.5 million in construction costs. The funds come from the 2018 Green Economy and Clean Water Bond.
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Grants ranged from $25,000 to $1 million.
Projects are designed to protect wastewater facilities from storm surge, winds and other natural hazards that are expected to increase due to climate change.
The three largest grants include:
• Westerly: $1 million to make improvements to the Westerly Wastewater Treatment Facility headworks to improve hydraulic capacity and grit removal.
• Narragansett: $635,000 to upgrade the Scarborough wastewater facilities outfall to better protect it from forces of more-intense coastal storms.
• Smithfield: $475,000 to construct a grit-removal system to protect the wastewater- treatment facility from sand and other inorganics commonly associated with elevated collection system flows – particularly in intense rainfalls.
