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FIXING A BREAK: City and D’Ambra Construction crews worked into the early morning hours last Thursday to replace a section of the Oakland Beach forced sewer main beneath West Shore Road. Mayor Picozzi posted this photo soon after crews arrived at the scene to warn motorists of possible delays on West Shore Road.
Teamwork averts sewer break from an environmental disaster
It surely seems a non sequitur to compare repair of a broken sewer main to a choreographed ballet. But listening to Betty Anne Rogers, director of the Warwick Sewer Authority, the music was the only … more
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NOT FOR MUCH LONGER: Airport Road motorists have grown accustomed to the big pipes that serve as a bypass to the Cedar Swamp pressure line between the pump station off Cedar Swamp Road not far from Sandy Lane and a point off Airport Road where it is then carried to the waste water treatment plant. The relining of the in ground pipe that was seriously deteriorated is nearing completion, enabling removal of the bypass. (Warwick Beacon photos)
Major sewer projects near finish line
By late May those big black pipes snaking down Airport Road and buried at intersections such as Commerce Drive should be gone and a major link in the city’s sewer system conveying about a third … more
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A BOOSTER TO RATEPAYERS: Mayor Picozzi with a super-sized check representing the federal grants funds the city will receive. The money will reduce the dependence on ratepayer funding to upgrade the sewer system. (Warwick Beacon photo)
City ‘flush’ with sewer grants
It was a poor pun but US Senator Jack made it anyway last Thursday in announcing three grants totaling $4.37 million to enhance the city’s sewer infrastructure, build in environmental … more
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FIRST OF BAYSIDE HOME CONNECTIONS: A bit of rain and threat of downpours didn’t delay Hemlock Directional Drilling from bringing the first of the Bayside sewer project connections to homes on Beatrice Road Friday. The directional drilling provides for the connections without disturbing archeological features left by Native Americans. To accomplish that, a pipe is fed into the bore of the hole between the property and a pit for the sewer interceptor. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Ready for first of Bayside sewer links
By JOHN HOWELL After more than 25 years of being told they would get sewers, the first of 900 Bayside property owners will be able to flush a toilet, take a shower, do a load of laundry and push … more
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Sewer treatment plant visitors flush with answers
Saturday couldn’t have been a better day for a tour of the city’s wastewater treatment plant – sewer plant as it is commonly referred to. It was sunny, hardly a breeze and cool, … more
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TOUR PLANNERS: Betty Ann Rogers, superintendent of the Warwick Sewer Authority and assistant superintendent Michael Bedard at one of the first tanks those attending the tour of the treatment will get to see on at the April 29 open house and tour April 29. (Warwick Beacon photo)
After the flush…
Last year more than 200 people, many of them children, took an hour or more out of a Saturday to tour, seemingly, one of the least likely Warwick attractions – the waste water treatment plant, … more
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Sewer authority seeks added $27M in bonding
The Warwick Sewer Authority is between a rock and a hard place. It is ready to move ahead with the repair of 2.5 miles of pipeline providing service to thousands of residents, in fact the temporary … more
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And it would pass the smell test
Can a sewer pumping station be a thing of beauty? A sewage pumping station is usually not beautiful. There are 48 of them in the city. Many are block-like structures, commonly a work shed with a … more
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It closed the school
When a floor drain in the Veterans Middle High kitchen showed signs of blacking up last Wednesday, personnel didn’t waste time to track down the problem. They found the line connecting to the … more
BEARER OF GOOD NEWS: Mayor Frank Picozzi and Warwick Sewer Authority Executive Director Betty Anne Rogers welcome Senator Jack Reed to authority offices Monday morning. Reed and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whilehouse presented the authority with a $1.5 million earmark grant that will be used for a “state of the art” monitoring system or SCADA. (Warwick Beacon photo)
$1.5M to modernize city’s ability to monitor sewers
“Flush and done,” is not a slogan you’d find at the Warwick Sewer Authority. Rather, it’s what happens after the toilet bowl, or for that matter the kitchen sink, washer or … more
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READY AND WAITING: Following the rupture of a forced main sewer that spilled thousands of gallons of waste water into Warwick Pond this fall, the Warwick Sewer Authority contracted to install a bypass that it plans to use as the full length of the pipe is repaired. Now, however, that bids for the work are three times projected estimates, the project is on hold. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Critical sewer project 3 times cost estimate
Betty Anne Rogers, executive director of the Warwick Sewer Authority, couldn’t believe her eyes as the authority opened bids to overhaul the forced main sewer line that ruptured early this … more
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SHUTTING OFF THE LEAK: With a bypass to the broken pipe in place, the site of the break Wednesday morning was in stark contrast to the river of wastewater that defined the scene last Monday.
Impact of sewer break on pond less than first feared
The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) had some good news for the otherwise catastrophic situation last week when a forced main sewer line ruptured on Lakeshore Drive. Contrary to … more
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Ruptured pipe dumps sewage into pond
The Warwick Sewer Authority knew the aging forced main line carrying wastewater from the Cedar Swamp pumping station – a major pumping station for sewage collected from the south east section … more
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Stealth sewers
It’s been more than 25 years since the Warwick Sewer Authority started talking about and then designing sewers for what has become known as the Bayside project. And now that that it’s … more
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
MAY 17th, 2022, 4:00 P.M. Warwick Sewer AuthorityConference Room125 Arthur W. Devine BoulevardWarwick, Rhode Island 02886 The Warwick Sewer Authority (WSA) will conduct aPublic Hearing to … more
CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE? Look closely, but it’s unlikely you can identify tap water from effluent from Warwick’s wastewater treatment plant. Here Betty Anne Rogers , executive director of the Warwick Sewer Authority fills a beaker with effluent discharged into the Pawtuxet River. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Would you drink it?
By JOHN HOWELL It’s the test at the end of the tour that amazes most people, says Betty Anne Rogers, executive director of the Warwick Sewer Authority. One would think it would be easy. … more
ONCE A BYPASS: The bypass to the Airport Interceptor sewer line stands ready to be removed now that that section of restoration to the buried pipe on Service Avenue is completed.
More than a mile of sewer restoration nears completion
By JOHN HOWELL A facsimile of what has been buried and hidden from view for decades has appeared above ground alongside Airport Road, in front of the former Ann & Hope, down Michigan Avenue and next to the sidewalk on Jefferson Boulevard before turning more
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It starts with a cut
It starts with a cut D'Ambra Construction has started work on the $17.5 million Bayside sewer project that will bring service to more than 900 properties currently dependent on septic systems and cesspools. The work being partially subsidized with more
In support of Bayside sewers
To the Editor: We would like to express our support for the Bayside Sewer project. We have been waiting many years to be able to tie-in to the city sewer system and we are glad that this project will finally get started. We appreciate the efforts of our more
On deaf ears
To the Editor: I went to the meeting concerning the sewers Thursday night, Sept 16. This meeting was a sham. Our mayor should have called this meeting before he signed the OK to go ahead. When I said that to him his reply was that he did. If he did we more
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