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Sawmill Pond

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

You Could Be Eligible for a Free Rain Garden

Residents near Sawmill Pond in North Kingstown could be eligible for a free rain garden. Learn more at Wednesday night's info session.

  Residents living near Sawmill Pond (in the Davisville area of town, extending down toward Ten Rod Road) may be eligible for free landscaping of sorts. As part of the Sawmill Pond Restoration Project, homeowners in the area are eligible for a free, grant-funded rain garden to be designed and installed right on their property.  A rain garden is a subtle depression in the landscape, filled with native plants. These gardens help collect and filter stormwater, preventing it from polluting local streams, ponds (like Sawmill Pond) and lakes. They can also prevent flooding on properties.  Those who are interested or would like more information are invited to attend an information session tonight (Wednesday, Nov. 14) at Davisville Elementary …

Friday, June 17, 2011

Three Projects Under Way to Clean Sawmill Pond

Work designed to reduce erosion and runoff will begin next year

Change is bubbling up around Sawmill Pond in Davisville, but not much will be visible until spring of 2012. The Town of North Kingstown has assembled $620,000 and hired environmental science and engineering firm Horsley Witten Group to oversee three projects designed to reduce the pollution and sediment that enters the nine-acre pond and then travels from the pond downstream into Narragansett Bay. According to a 2005 report by Patty Gambarini of the Southern Rhode Island Conservation District, Sandhill Brook was dammed to create Sawmill Pond early in Colonial days and last used to power industry before the Civil War. Over the years its 65-foot-wide dam has been reduced to about one foot in height, and sediment has filled the impoundment to…

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