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NEW AT SIX, A FIX AFTER
THE FLOODS.
A SEWER PUMPING
STATION THAT
OVERFLOWED DUE TO THE
HISTORIC FLOODS TWO
YEARS AGO -- IS GETTING RE
SET TO BE REPLACED.
CREWS BROKE GROUND
AT THE SITE THIS
MORNING.
THE PINPOINT NEWS
TRACKER SHOWS YOU
THE LOCATION OF THE
NEW PUMP STATION IN
WARWICK -- BELLOWS
STREET AND INDUSTRIAL
DRIVE.
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER PETE
MANGIONE HAS MORE
DETAILS NOW.
THE BELLOWS STREET
PUMPING STATION COULD NOT
KEEP UP WITH THE 2010
HISTORIC FLOODS. THE CITY OF
WARWICK IS NOW MAKING
SURE THAT WILL NEVER
HAPPEN AGAIN.
FOR THOSE DIRECTLY
AFFECTED, VIDEO AND
PICTURES OF THE 2010
HISTORIC FLOODS ARE STILL
HARD TO GET THROUGH
When the WSA staff looks at
these
pictures again after 2 and half
years
it still makes us shudder. And
we say
to ourselved, never again.
AT A GROUNDBREAKING
THURSDAY, JANINE BURKE OF
THE WARWICK SEWER
AUTHORITY BACKED UP HER
PROMISE BY ANNOUNCING A
NEW AND IMPROVED PUMPING
STATION.
THESE PUMPS ARE DESIGNED
TO NOT FAIL NO MATTER HOW
HIGH THE WATER GETS.
IN THE 2010 FLOODS, THE
PUMPS SHUT DOWN FOR 2
WEEKS.
Janine Burke, Warwick Sewer
Authority
Our customers in this industrial
park
were without sewer service for
what I
feel is an unnacceptable amount
of
time
WORKING AT THE SAME
LOCATION AS THE OLD PUMP,
THE UPGRADE WILL BE BUILT
WITH NEWER EQUIPMENT,
INCLUDING A PERMANENT BACK
UP POWER GENERATOR.
RHODE ISLAND'S
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
HELPED SECURE CASH FOR
THE PROJECT, WITH A $721,000
FEDERAL GRANT.
MAYOR SCOTT AVEDISIAN IS
GRATEFUL FOR THE
ASSISTANCE.
Nothing you could ever attempt
to do
could ever prepare me for a
press
conference where I told people
that
they could not flush their
toilets. So I
will tell you it's a much
happier day to
be here today.
SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION
IN JUNE 2013, THE CITY IS NOT
EXPECTING ANY DISRUPTION OF
SEWER SERVICE DURING THE
CONTRUCTION. PETE
MANGIONE, EWN.
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