R.I. gets $269M federal loan to help clean up Narragansett Bay

Scott Blake

09/20/2019

MEMBERS OF THE Narragansett Bay Commission and others pose with a boring machine at the Combined Sewer Overflow tunnel. Project officials announced a federal loan Friday to help pay for the final phase of the project. / PBN FILE PHOTO

EAST PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island authorities have received a $268.7 million federal loan to help pay for construction of a 2.2-mile sewage containment tunnel under Pawtucket and Central Falls to complete the largest public works project in state history. Overall, the Combined Sewer Overflow project by the Narragansett Bay Commission is expected to cost nearly…

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