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Evaluation of Water Quality Benefits from CSO Alternatives for Narragansett Bay

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The Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC) owns and operates sewer collection systems and wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF) in the Narraganset Bay watershed.  In the upper bay, a number of the sewer collection systems are part of combined sewer/stormwater infrastructure which is susceptible to combined sewer overflows (CSOs).

These CSOs introduce untreated sewerage in to the bay during larger precipitation events due to the large stormwater volumes.   The sewerage results in elevated fecal coliform (FC) concentrations within the receiving waters which poses public health risk through both contact of recreational water users and potential toxic effects from shellfish consumption if the shellfish is exposed to these bacteria, and many shellfishing areas have been closed to prevent harvesting of affected shellfish.  NBC is evaluating various design alternatives to reduce CSO frequency and severity.

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In May 2014, RPS started the project.

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In February 2015, the modelling analysis was completed.

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In April 2016, the board meeting was held to accept the consultant report.

Project Name

Evaluation of Water Quality Benefits from CSO Alternatives for Narragansett Bay

Client

Narragansett Bay Commission through MWH Global (now part of Stantec)

Sectors

  • Water Management
  • Wastewater

Location

  • Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA

Services Provided

  • Environmental data gathering and analysis 
  • Hydrodynamic modelling 
  • Pollutant transport modelling 
  • Geospatial analysis 

Challenge

NBC wanted to evaluate water quality benefits from various design alternatives for various precipitation events.   While a first order approximation of benefit can be made by evaluating the total loading of various scenarios, NBC wanted to investigate whether the alternatives would reduce the frequency and duration of FC concentrations in shellfishing areas.  Since the desire was to evaluate multiple loading scenarios that are theoretical in nature, the evaluation could not be performed using observations, which are sparse and only reflect present day loading.  Therefore, NBC needed a model that could be used to simulate various theoretical scenarios and further needed analysis to interpret the trends observed from sparse observations. 

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hydrodynamics and water quality model application to Narragansett Bay

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alternatives were evaluated

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theoretical design storms evaluated for each alternative

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shellfish area impacts were analysed for potential benefits of CSO mitigation

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