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14 Natural Hazards & Climate Change
Table 14-2 – Newport’s Critical Facilities
Critical Infrastructure
Critical Historic
Structures in
Flood Zone
Nursing &
Elderly Facilities
Public Utilities
Emergency Shelters
City Hall
Brick Market Place
Heatherwood Nursing
and Subacute Center
Station 1 Water Treatment
Plant
Newport Area Career
and Technical Center
Fire Station 1, 2 & 5
Castle Hill Light
House
St. Claire Home
Forest Avenue Pumping
Station
Sheffield Elementary
School
Newport Police
Department
Sherman Clark House
Village House Nursing
and Rehabilitation
Center
Saint Mary’s Pumping
Station
Pell School
Newport Hospital
Covell William King III
House
John Clarke Retirement
Center
Reservoir Road Water
Storage Tank
Florence Gray Center
Newport Animal Hospital
Hunter House
Blenheim
Wastewater Treatment
Facility
Emergency Shelter
Claiborne Pell Newport
Bridge
Ida Lewis Rock
Lighthouse
Scattered Elderly
Housing Project
Washington Avenue
Combined Sewer
Overflow Facility
Pell School
Newport Steam
Factory
Donovan manor
Lawton Valley Water
Treatment Plant and
Water Storage Tanks
Thompson Middle
School
Perry Mill House
Mumford Manor
Paradise Pumping Station
Rogers High School
Rose Island
Lighthouse
John Clarke School
Senior Apartments
Sakonnet Pumping
Station
Newport Area Career &
Technical Center
Seaman’s Church
Institute Market
Square
Paramount Theatre
Apartments
Goulart Lane Water
Storage Tank
Aquidneck Island Adult
Learning Center
Festival Field Housing
Naval War College
Ahepa 245 I and II
Senior Housing
Wellington Avenue
Combined Sewer
Overflow Facility
13 Sewer Pumping
Stations
Naval Station Newport
Source: Newport 2014 Hazard Mitigation Plan
Water Supply
Increased precipitation and storms can lead to inland
flooding, which can cause problems for Newport’s water
supply. Excessive water can cause dam breach for Newport’s
drinking water reservoir dams.
The Easton Pond South dam is
susceptible to dam breach as it
is designated as a high hazard
by the Dam Safety Program
report conducted in 2013. The
high hazard designation
means that a breach can result
in the loss of human life.
In addition to dam breach, water supply is also affected by
hotter weather, which can lead to drought like conditions.
Drought from depleted reservoirs levels and warming water
temperatures would put strain on the water quality and
quantity in Newport, which is already being affected by the
contamination of THMs. Rhode Island as a whole is vulnerable to short term or long term droughts.
Draft Existing Conditions (March 2016)
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