AGENDA
Semi-Monthly Meeting – Full Council
Tuesday, October 13, 2020; 6:00 p.m.

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Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting -- Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Subcommittee/Staff Reports

APPLICATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN OUT-TO-NOTICE AND ARE BEFORE THE FULL COUNCIL FOR DECISION:

2020-02-043 NARRAGANSETT BAY COMMISSION -- Implement Phase IIIA and Phase IIIB of its Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Abatement Program (the Phase III Program). CSO Abatement is a requirement of a Consent Agreement between NBC and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM). The Phase III Program will be focused in Pawtucket and Central Falls, which is serviced by the Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF) in East Providence.

The Phase III Program will include construction of the Pawtucket Tunnel, tunnel pump station, four (4) drop shafts, gate and screening structures, consolidation conduits, and diversion structures. Related facilities will include green stormwater infrastructure, sewer separation, a tunnel odor control facility, emergency overflow structures, modifications to regulator structures, and enlargement of dry weather sewer connections. The Master Plan also includes upgrades at the Bucklin Point WWTF to improve operational and treatment efficiency and upgraded administrative facilities. All surface construction will occur in the public right-of-way or on properties owned or controlled by NBC. The project will include a temporary filtered groundwater infiltration discharge associated with Tunnel boring operations.

Portions of the work will occur within coastal areas and freshwater wetland areas regulated by the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC). The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) has deferred the Freshwater Wetlands review to the CRMC for review under CRMC’s Rules and Regulations Governing the Protection and Management of Fresh Water Wetland in the Vicinity of the Coast (650-RICR- 20-00-2).

Project Location: Primarily along the Seekonk and Blackstone Rivers in the Cities of Pawtucket, Central Falls, and East Providence, RI.

2020-05-034 QUONSET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION -- The project will be to construct and maintain a new T shaped pier that has a 62-ft wide by 102-ft long approach section from land leading to a 15-ft wide by 120-ft long T portion at the end of the approach section. The pier will be supported by 30-in diameter pipe piles. The project also requires the demolition and removal of a 50-ft by 220-ft seaplane ramp. There is also a rip-rap wall expansion that will include fill below mean high water. Located at plat 185, lot 29; General Dynamics/Electric Boat Facility, Roger Williams Way, North Kingstown, RI.

2019-11-078 TOWN OF BRISTOL -- To expand an existing marina by 79 slips, 60 of which are for residents, 18 are transient slips and 1 100’ space will be used for the SeaStreak ferry. The proposed marina expansion requires a variance from the parking standards as it can only provide 58 of the 78 parking spaces required. The facility will be secured with concrete blocks and chains versus piles due to the wave climate in the area. Located at plat 10, lots 42, 60, 61, 62, 70, 73; Church Street Marina, 127 Thames Street, Bristol, RI.

2014-12-056 ANTONIO PINHEIRO & JOSEPH PINHEIRO -- Modification of Assent to include: 1) Addition of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) to the species that can be grown; the blue mussel spat will come from their current site; 2) add sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) to the species that can be grown on site using their existing trawl lines; and 3) add a permanently moored work platform to the existing site; the floating platform maximum size would be 40 x 20 feet. Project Location: Dutch Island Harbor, Narragansett Bay, Jamestown, RI.

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