The Why, What, How, Costs and Benefits of Your Community’s Investment in Water Pollution Control Infrastructure
When: February 3, 2011 from 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.
RSVP: to Marci Cole Ekberg at [email protected] or 401-272-3540, x113
What: A three-hour workshop sponsored by Save The Bay and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management’s Office of Water Resources providing an overview of the very real water pollution issues, requirements, costs and benefits of clean water.
The Back Story: Every day in Rhode Island, communities collect and treat approximately 100 million gallons of residential, commercial and industrial sewage before it is discharged back into nature. Those facilities and thousands of miles of buried sewer collection pipes and hundreds of pumping stations add up to some of the most expensive and critical infrastructure in the Ocean State — and most of this unseen investment in clean water is owned, operated and maintained by local municipalities. Moreover, communities are responsible for adequately managing stormwater runoff into our state’s waterways.
This workshop will provide you with background information on wastewater and stormwater infrastructure as well as funding mechanisms to maintain your systems. You’ll also have the opportunity to meet and ask questions of regulatory and technical assistance personnel from RI DEM and the U.S. EPA.
Intended Audience: Returning and newly elected municipal officials, town managers and public works directors
The Program:
8:00 Meet and greet. Light breakfast available.
8:30 Welcome and goal setting
8:45 Overview of Water Pollution Issues by John Torgan,
Save The Bay
9 :00 Wastewater 101 by Bill Patenaude, RIDEM
9:30 Onsite Wastewater Treatment and Stormwater 101
by Russ Chateauneuf, RIDEM
10:00 Financing Options by Tony Simeone, RI Clean Water
Finance Agency
10:30 Wrapup, Next Steps, Individual Q&A
11:00 Tour of the Save The Bay Center (optional)
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