City continues to weigh all options for Grotto station
PAWTUCKET — The city’s Public Works Director has outlined a litany of options for the future of the Grotto Avenue transfer station, which range from continuing operations, constructing a “ waste-to-energy ” facility, and altogether closing the station and direct hauling waste to the landfill in Johnston. waste to energy financing In a 54-page memorandum from Public Works Director Eric J. Earls to the City Council, since the last update on the transfer station in June, the Department of Public Works has explored “a number of different alternatives” including continuing operations as a transfer station on Grotto Avenue, construction of a “ waste-to-energy ” facility at the Grotto Avenue site, and closing the station and direct hauling to the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation landfill in Johnston. Repairing the existing Grotto Avenue facility would cost between $1.3 million and $2.5 million, according to a 2018 report authored by Fuss & O’...