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News Release RI Department of Environmental Management 235 Promenade Street, Providence, RI 02908 (401) 222-2771 TDD/(401) 222-4462
DEM ANNOUNCES REOPENING OF ADDITIONAL SHELLFISHING AREAS AFFECTED BY OCTOBER RAINFALL PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management announces that four additional areas will re-open to shellfishing beginning at noon tomorrow, November 2. DEM's decision to reopen those areas is based on test results from sampling done by staff yesterday.The additional areas include the easterly section of Point Judith Pond, east middle Bay (north of a line from the southern tip of Prudence Island to Carr Point in Portsmouth), all of west middle Bay, and conditional area "B" and Greenwich Bay. In addition, two shellfishing areas will be reopened next weekend. Mount Hope Bay and the Kickemuit River will re-open at sunrise on Saturday, November 5. Conditional area "A" in the upper Bay will be reopened at sunrise on Sunday, November 6. Due to extreme sewage overflows experienced during the recent storm emergency in mid October, most Bay waters of the state and all south coastal ponds were closed to shellfishing. DEM has been collecting data and reopening areas as appropriate. As a result of today's announcement, DEM is reopening all areas except those typically closed as described in the "Notice of Polluted Shellfish Grounds May 2005." A recorded list of areas still closed can be heard on DEM's shellfish information line, 222-2900. -30- |
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