NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):
National Coastal Resilience Fund
Project Title: Designing Providence Riverwalk to Improve Resilience and Habitat of Woonasquatucket River (RI)
Organization:
City of Providence
Project ID:
0318.23.075603
Description:

Develop final designs to naturalize the Providence Riverwalk to improve water quality, resiliency and habitat of the Woonasquatucket River. Project will raise the riverwalk above future flood elevations, demolish the hardened riverwalk walls, naturalize riverbanks beneath the new shared-use path, and filter storm-water runoff.

Award Amount:
$1000000.00
Location:
Woonasquatucket River, Providence County, Rhode Island