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The State House dome from North Main Street. (Photo by Bob Plain)

Sewage Treatment Gets Legislative Treatment

By Tom Sgouros on June 22, 2012

In the waning days of the legislative session, can one be forgiven for suspecting that Assembly members don’t give a, well how about a quart of  sewage solids about the municipal governments they represent?  Sewage stories from Woonsocket and Warwick lead one to suspect otherwise. Woonsocket first. Woonsocket is currently under a DEM order to [...]

Posted in Budgeting for Disaster: Tom Sgouros takes on the state budget, Economy, Environment, Featured, State Budget | Tagged clean water, DEM, Environment, struggling cities, Warwick, Woonsocket | 2 Responses

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