Site Remediation Program
Kelly Owens, Supervisor
235 Promenade Street
Providence, RI 02908-5767
(401) 222-2797
fax 222-3812
Information on Site Remediation and Brownfields Programs
- Goals
- Objectives
- Site Assessment Opportunities
- Environmental Justice Information
- Program Purpose
- Process
- Site Cleanup Grant Opportunities
- General Information
- Office of Waste Management Site Inventory Lists
Information on Specific Remediation and Brownfields Sites
- Sites Where Response Actions Are Planned Between 10/1/19 and 9/30/20
- Response Actions Completed Over Previous Year 10/1/18 to 9/30/19
- Sites Where Response Actions Are Planned Between 10/1/18 and 9/30/19
- Response Actions Completed Over Previous Year 10/1/17 to 9/30/18
- Sites Where Response Actions Are Planned Between 10/1/17 and 9/30/18
- Response Actions Completed Over Previous Year 10/1/16 to 9/30/17
- Sites Where Response Actions Are Planned Between 10/1/16 and 9/30/17
- Response Actions Completed Over Previous Year 10/1/15 and 9/30/16
- Sites Where Response Actions Are Planned Between 10/1/15 and 9/30/16
- Response Actions Completed Over Previous Year 10/1/14 and 9/30/15
- Gorham/Textron(Adelaide Ave.)
- Springfield Street Schools
- Bay Street/Tiverton
- Charbert
- Former Tidewater Coal Manufactured Gas Site (Pawtucket)
- Providence Gas Co.- AA(a.k.a. former New England Gas Company MGP property)
- Trestle Trail Bike Path (Coventry)
- Queen Anne Square (Newport)
- Blackstone Valley Preparatory School (Cumberland)
- Lincoln Lace & Braid
- Strawberry Fields
- Francis J. Varieur Elementary School (Pawtucket)
- Former Coffey's Texaco (Newport)
- Blackstone River Bikeway - Segment 1A (Providence)
- Bay Spring Realty Company - 90 Bay Spring Avenue
The goal of the program is to provide fair, comprehensive and consistent regulation of the investigation and remediation of hazardous waste, hazardous material and petroleum releases, implemented in a timely and cost-effective manner. The State program is designed to determine if a site poses a threat to human health and the environment and efficiently determine a remedy that is effective but not overly burdensome to the parties involved.
This program also supports the redevelopment and reuse of contaminated sites through the Brownfields program. Sites are identified, evaluated, cleaned up and brought back to beneficial reuse in Rhode Island communities.
To regulate and provide technical oversight for the investigation and remediation of releases of hazardous waste or hazardous material to the environment; to ensure that those investigations and remedial activities are conducted in a consistent manner that adequately protects human health and the environment; and to enforce regulations regarding the proper disposal of abandoned hazardous waste.
- To support the reuse and redevelopment of contaminated sites through the Brownfields program;
- To provide a protective, efficient and cost-effective program as an alternative to the federal process and the stigma associated with it;
- To encourage voluntary responses to contamination discovered on properties within the State;
- To characterize and evaluate the impacts from releases of hazardous material to the environment;
- To determine whether remedial action is warranted under the program;
- To require and oversee the implementation of remedial actions designed to minimize, or eliminate, the impacts from releases of hazardous materials; and
- To effectively track the progress and report the level of effort expended completing tasks under this program.
Cleaning a contaminated site requires investigation, planning and action. The Remediation Regulations define these specific documents that are needed, or may be needed, as part of that process:
- Site Remediation Process Flow Chart
- Notification of Release Submit Electronically at DEM.OWMSiteRemNor@dem.ri.gov
- Public Notice of Investigation; (Spanish template)
- Site Investigation Report (SIR) Checklist;
- Public Notice of Completed Site Investigation & Comment Period on Technical Feasibility of Proposed Remedy; (Spanish Version)
- Remedial Action Approval Fee Form;
- Remedial Action Work Plan (RAWP);
- Remedial Action;
- Closure Report; and, if applicable,
- Environmental Land Usage Restriction (ELUR);
- Soil Management Plan Template; and
- Remedial Agreement.
- ELUR Annual Inspection Form
- Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser Statement
Site Assessment Opportunities:
- RIDEM Brownfields Competitive Site Assessments
- EPA-lead competitive Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) Program
- Free Targeted Brownfields Assessments
- Brownfields Financial Assistance Program
- NEW! 2019 Brownfields Bond Fund Reimbursement Grant ApplicationPDF / Word
- Combined Application for TBA and RLF FundingPDF / Word
- Brownfield Liability Seminar
Site Cleanup Funding Opportunities:
- NEW!2019 Brownfields Remediation and Economic Development Fund - Annoucement of Request for Proposals
- NEW! 2019 Brownfields Bond Fund Reimbursement Grant ApplicationPDF / Word
- Combined Application for TBA and RLF FundingPDF / Word
- Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank – Revolving Loan Fund
- Commerce RI
- RIDEM - Who We Are, What We Do & How We Can Help You
- Site Investigation Report (SIR) Checklist
- Environmental Land Usage Restriction
- Guidelines for the Management of Investigation Derived Wastes
- Brownfields Economic Information Form
- Industrial Property Remediation and Reuse Act
- Third-Party Professional Site Remediation Report
PRIMARY RESOURCES
- New Brownfields Bond Fund Regulations (RFP)
- Remediation Regulations
- EXPRESS Policy: Expedited Policy for Remediation of Environmental Simple Sites
- Guidelines for Expedited Excavation and Disposal Response Actions (Dig & Haul)
- Guidelines for the Management of Historically Agricultural Properties for Future Use as Open Space and/or Recreational Land (Ag Policy)
- Hazardous Materials Release Notification Form
- Environmental Land Usage Restriction
- Soil Management Plan Template
- ELUR Annual Self-Inspection Form word /pdf
- Environmental Equity
- Community Involvement English or Español
