Posts Tagged ‘pfas’
Little Compton school will lead the way in RI to abate ‘forever chemicals.’ Here’s how.
Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal — You’d never think there’s anything wrong with the water that comes from the town well next to Wilbur & McMahon Schools. There’s no odor or taste that would signal that anything’s amiss. But the groundwater that’s pumped up from an aquifer 180 feet below the surface contains trace amounts of…
Read MoreInfrastructure Bank Awards $650,000 To Wood River Health Services To Remove PFAS From Drinking Water System
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank, the state’s central hub for financing infrastructure improvements for municipalities, businesses, and homeowners, has awarded a $650,000 grant to Wood River Health Services in Hope Valley to implement a treatment system to remove PFAS from the organization’s well water drinking source. Grant funding was made available via the Environmental…
Read MoreInfrastructure Bank Awards $1.4 Million Grant To URI Cooperative Extension For PFAS Detection & Monitoring
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank, the state’s central hub for financing infrastructure improvements for municipalities, businesses, and homeowners, has awarded a $1,430,898 grant to the University of Rhode Island’s Cooperative Extension to continue the Extension’s work assisting the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM)…
Read MoreR.I. Infrastructure Bank provides $1.4M to study PFAS in drinking water
Providence Business News — The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank has awarded a $1.4 million grant to the University of Rhode Island’s Cooperative Extension to continue its work assisting the R.I. Department of Health and the R.I. Department of Environmental Management in identifying reasons why groundwater and surface water might be contaminated with synthetic chemicals. Read…
Read MoreR.I. Infrastructure Bank Awards $1.7 Million To Chariho, Foster & Scituate Public Schools To Address PFAS
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank, the state’s central hub for financing infrastructure improvements for municipalities, businesses, and homeowners, in partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Health has awarded a total of $1,714,928 in Emerging Contaminants grants to the Chariho, Foster, and Scituate Public School districts for water treatment upgrades to remove per-…
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