United Water improves treatment facility in Rhode Island

An extensive infrastructure upgrade of a United Water wastewater treatment facility serving East Providence, R.I., has made the facility more operationally friendly and efficient. United Water operates the plant for the city. In October, United Water, one of the leading U.S. providers of water and wastewater services, completed a $52 million design-build-operate project at the City of East Providence Water Pollution Control Facility that is reducing odors, improving plant operations, and lowering nitrogen levels that impact Rhode Island’s Providence River and Narragansett Bay. “The health of our city and its people depends on the health of our environment,” says East Providence Mayor