After 23 years of painstaking work, the third and final phase of an expansive, approximately $1.5 billion sewer infrastructure project in Rhode Island — the largest public works endeavor in state history — is about halfway to the finish line.
The project, managed by the Providence-based Narragansett Bay Commission, a quasi-public and nonprofit utility agency, is expected to be completed in February 2028. The first two phases have already significantly reduced the number of combined sewer overflows into Narragansett Bay. The bay is a roughly 150-square-mile estuary off the state’s coast that’s a vital but vulnerable economic and recreational asset that
