General Public

Facility Tours

Take a tour of one of the country's best-operated and maintained wastewater treatment facilities, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The Field's Point facility, in Providence, is one of the country's oldest and the state's largest wastewater treatment facility. Or visit the state's second largest facility in East Providence, the Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility. At both facilities visitors will learn how their community's wastewater is processed, cleaned and returned to Narragansett Bay. Visitors will understand how 
wastewater treatment is a vital link in the overall water quality chain that we depend on. Thousands of people tour our facilities each year, ranging from school children to university students to foreign officials from Turkey, Sri Lanka, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Iceland, India, Canada, Indonesia, Germany, Pakistan, China, Norway, Japan, England and Scotland.

CSO Public Information Forums

Quarterly, the Narragansett Bay Commission invites the public to take part in an information forum on the Commission's Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project. At these forums, members of the public can get updates on construction progress, budget, and management of the $314 million first phase of the three-phase infrastructure project. Arguably the most important clean water project in the State of Rhode Island, NBC's CSO project will dramatically reduce sewage overflows that occur in times of heavy rain and violate the federal Clean Water Act. For more information on the next Public Information Forum, contact the Public Affairs Office.