Woonsocket Taken to Court for Polluting Blackstone River
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Attorney General Peter Neronha is suing the city of Woonsocket and two contractors over their mismanagement of the municipality'...
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Attorney General Peter Neronha is suing the city of Woonsocket and two contractors over their mismanagement of the municipality's wastewater treatment facility and for polluting the Blackstone River. The civil complaint , recently filed in Providence Superior Court, alleges numerous violations of the Clean Water Act, the state's Freshwater Wetlands and Environmental Rights acts, and impairment of public trust resources by Woonsocket's wastewater treatment facility . The legal action comes just weeks after the facility was found to be illegally discharging partially treated sewage — also known as effluent — into the Blackstone River, the third such instance in 12 months.