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DIGGING IT: Narragansett Bay Commission Chairman Vincent J. Mesolella, center, examines the progress made in the combined sewer overflow tunnel deep below Pawtucket. He is surrounded by contractors working on the project. Behind Mesolella is the boring machine that chewed through 2 miles of bedrock over three years.
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A boring job completed;
enormous impact ahead?

After taking three years to travel little more than 2 miles, the Narragansett Bay Commission finally reached a finish line of sorts in February...
DIGGING IT: Workers for the contractor CB3A start working on the main shaft of the combined sewer overflow tunnel that will run more than 100 feet below the city of Pawtucket. The shaft, located on School Street in Pawtucket, will be 60 feet in diameter and will allow a boring machine to be lowered in. / COURTESY NARRAGANSETT BAY COMMISSION/PETER GOLDBERG

After decades of work, light at end of CSO tunnel

What happens beneath the streets of Providence and surrounding cities is unseen by residents, but after heavy rainfall, the result always ends up in...
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Emily Fields, a biological sciences student at the University of Rhode Island, conducts sampling of macroalgae along Narragansett Bay. Through higher sewer rates, many homes and businesses in northern Rhode Island have been paying for a nearly $1.4 billion tunnel project by the Narragansett Bay Commission to prevent dirty wastewater from overflowing into the bay./PBN FILE PHOTO

Price of cleaner bay? Rising sewer bills

If they already haven’t realized it, households and businesses in Greater Providence are paying much of the cost of keeping Narragansett Bay clean. To comply...
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