Newport and Middletown Residents Speak Out on Stormwater Diffuser
The Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) on Tuesday night held a public forum on Middletown's $3.3 million Easton's Bay stormwater redirection project, recently awarded to C.B. Utility.
On Tuesday evening, the Coastal Resources Management Council held a public forum at theCommunity College of Rhode Island (CCRI) for residents to weigh-in on Middletown's stormwater project, to redirect discharge near Atlantic Beach to a new outfall 1,000 feet south and extended 500 feet into Easton Bay. On August 3, the Middletown Town Council awarded a $3.3 million construction contract to C.B. Utility to perform the work.The goal of the project is to push pollutants away from the shallow swimming areas and futher into the deeper bay, so the bacteria will naturally diffuse and filter to safer limits by the time it arrives back to the beach. In the spring, the City of Newport completed a project with the same goal for Newport storm water…
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