by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 13, 2019 | Fall 2019
A Rising Challenge By Ellen Liberman Photographs by Cate Brown Rhode Island Grapples with the Policy and Practice of Coastal Resiliency With just a few weeks to go, the town of Narragansett was racing to meet a deadline. On March 1, a new state law would radically...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 13, 2019 | Fall 2019
Resilience Shapes Investments By Jen A. Miller “Better-prepared municipalities equal a better-prepared Ocean State,” says Shaun O’Rourke, the state’s chief resilience officer and director of stormwater and resiliency at the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank. He’s...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 12, 2019 | Fall 2019
Flushing into the Flood Sea Level Rise and Storms Are Changing how Communities Deal with Wastewater By Sue KennedyPhotographs by Jesse Burke Over a hundred years ago, locating the state’s first sewage treatment plant at Providence’s Fields Point, just a few...
