Employing both tried-and-true as well as cutting-edge and innovative engineering solutions to achieve clean water is the principle upon which the Narragansett Bay Commission was founded in 1980. As the owner and operator of Rhode Island's two largest wastewater treatment facilities, the NBC will design and implement nearly $300 million in clean water engineering projects over the next 5 years.

Engineering projects include the operation and maintenance of the NBC's 89-miles of underground interceptors (many of which are 100 years old!), as well as other infrastructure challenges, such as combined sewer overflows.