New England Inland Rivers Geographic Response Strategies
GRS Projects - Rhode Island
This page summarizes active and completed GRS Development and Testing project activity in Rhode Island and provides a link to access all completed GRS documents. For all completed projects, Meeting Summaries and each project Site Selection Matrix are available. Contact EPA Region 1 or Nuka Research via the contact information provided on the Home Page to obtain project documents.
Active Projects
GRS Validation/Testing
Blackstone River (MA & RI)
August 2023 - August 2024
1 exisiting GRS will be selected for testing and validation in Massachusetts
1 exisiting GRS will be selected for testing and validation in Rhode Island
Meeting/Event
Date/Time
Location
Documents
Initial Planning
Tuesday, October 31
10:30am - 12:00pm
Zoom video conference
Mid-Planning
TBD
TBD
Pending
Final Planning
TBD
TBD
Pending
Field Validation/Testing
TBD
TBD
Pending
Completed Projects
2017 - 2018 Blackstone & Pawtuxet River GRS Development Project
This project was completed in 2018. The 10 Geographic Response Strategies that were developed are listed below and are available at the Regional Response Team 1 website located here.
Blackstone River
BR-RI-01 Woonsocket West
BR-RI-02 Woonsocket East
BR-RI-03 Manville Dam
BR-RI-04 Ashton Dam
BR-RI-05 Lonsdale Marsh
BR-RI-06 Pawtucket
Pawtuxet River
PX-RI-01 Warwick Mall
PX-RI-02 Pontiac Boat Ramp
PX-RI-03 Jefferson Blvd
PX-RI-04 Warwick Ave