Investing in Port and Water Infrastructure
- Advanced $100.6 million in Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) projects, leveraging an historic investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This includes $100 million for the Narragansett Bay Commission’s capital improvement program. Additionally, the Bank continues to support investments in capital improvement planning projects, including $350,000 to the Town of Johnston and $250 thousand to the City of Central Falls to complete updates to their facilities plans.
- Advanced $34.5 million in Drinking Water State Revolving Fund projects, leveraging an historic investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This includes a $1 million partially forgiven loan to the Town of Scituate to upgrade Scituate Middle and High Schools as part of the Governor’s school modernization initiative. Additional investments supported small and disadvantaged systems statewide, including funding for the Shannock Water District to install a new emergency generator; Quonochontaug Central Beach Fire District to expand and upgrade its water treatment facility; Scituate Housing Authority to improve generator, pump, and distribution infrastructure; and Prudence Island Water District to install permanent chlorination and pretreatment systems.
- Continued implementing the historic $87.85 million Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investment to remove lead service lines statewide, including a $26.3 million loan to the Providence Water Supply Board to replace lines in its service area—advancing Rhode Island toward the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act goal of replacing all public and private lead service lines within a decade and strengthening long-term public health and water infrastructure.
- Prioritized PFAS and other emerging-contaminant remediation projects for small, disadvantaged, and vulnerable communities through the EPA Emerging Contaminants Program—providing more than $15.5 million in SFY 2025 to 13 entities statewide and improving water quality for over 16,000 Rhode Islanders
- Completed major infrastructure upgrades at the Port of Davisville, including construction of the first new pier in 70 years (Terminal 5 Pier and Blue Economy Support Docks) to expand flexible berthing capacity, and reconstruction of Pier 1 South and Pier 1 East using federal, G.O. bond, and State Fiscal Recovery Funds.
- Approved $73.3 million for upgrading essential infrastructure at the Port of Galilee, the hub of Rhode Island’s commercial fishing industry. These upgrades were planned under the lens of resiliency, increasing the height of the bulkheads to protect the port from rising sea levels and storm surge.