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Bristol Wastewater Treatment Facility (Town of Bristol)

SSO · Rhode Island · Bristol

NPDES permit
RI0100005
Outfalls
none with coordinates yet
Receiving waters
Bristol Harbor (Narragansett Bay); Mount Hope Bay (pump station overflows); Kickemuit River (historic)
Tracked waters
Narragansett Bay, RI
Events tracked
17 discharges · latest Sep 14, 2026
Volume reported
no volumes reported

Source: discharger record from the project's research and EPA ECHO (dischargers.json); counts from the 17 event records below, as of 2026-11-02 11:56 UTC.

How it tells the public

No public notification channel found. Operator must report SSOs/bypasses to RIDEM verbally (as soon as possible, within 24 h) and electronically via EPA NeT-SewerOverflow within 5 calendar days; those reports surface later in EPA ECHO detailed facility reports. Public hears only if DEM closes shellfish areas (hotline 401-222-2900, Constant Contact email list, dem.ri.gov/shellfish, sometimes a press release) or RIDOH/DEM issue a contact advisory.

Source: the project's research on each operator's notification channel (research/<state>/dischargers.json), checked by fetching the operator's pages.

Outfalls

Source: water outlines from OpenBoatLaunch and OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); outfalls from EPA ECHO and the state outfall layers; modeled reaches computed by DirtyWaterWatch from USGS NLDI, NHDPlus and the nearest USGS gauge (Jobson 1996); basemap OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles.

Event history

Events reported for Bristol Wastewater Treatment Facility (Town of Bristol), newest first
StartEnd Water OutfallTypeVolumeSourceLinks
Sep 14, 2026 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3690537872, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice Event: Sanitary sewer overflow, Bristol Wastewater Treatment Facility (Town of Bristol), Sep 14, 2026
Sep 13, 2026 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3690537796, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice Event: Sanitary sewer overflow, Bristol Wastewater Treatment Facility (Town of Bristol), Sep 13, 2026
Apr 24, 2026 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3690892235, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Apr 24, 2026 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3687562095, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Mar 23, 2026 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3687349663, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

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Mar 6, 2026 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3687268795, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

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Feb 21, 2026 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3686061497, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Jan 28, 2026 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3685893569, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Mar 10, 2025 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3682106280, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Jul 1, 2024 Jul 8, 2024 not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3676911480, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Apr 4, 2024 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3675564283, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Mar 29, 2024 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3675554368, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Mar 12, 2024 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3675209822, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Mar 10, 2024 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3675197216, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Mar 10, 2024 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3675197216.0002, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Mar 7, 2024 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflow not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3675195172, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

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Feb 12, 2024 ended, time not reported Narragansett Bay, RI not stated Bypassrevised not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3674300194, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below · Map
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Feb 12, 2024 ended, time not reported not placed not stated Sanitary sewer overflowrevised not reported EPA ECHO (reported to regulators) via ri-echo-dfr, record 3674328489, published Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:55 UTC · notice record below
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list
Feb 11, 2024 Feb 11, 2024 “Estuaries: Bristol Harbor” (not placed) not stated Bypass not reported EPA ECHO Sewer Overflow and Bypass Event report (reported to regulators) via ECHO NPDES Sewer Overflow and Bypass Event Dataset (eRule Phase 2, current versions), record RI0100005:1:1, reported Jan 20, 2025, 7:00 PM EST, retrieved 2026-11-02 11:54 UTC · notice record below · Map
Full record (older than 180 days, so no page of its own)

This record in the archive list

History

  • Discharge events, last 12 months8Dec 2025 to Nov 2026; partly covered or sparse source
  • Days with a discharge, last 12 months7Dec 2025 to Nov 2026; partly covered or sparse source
  • Hours under advisory, last 12 months0Dec 2025 to Nov 2026; on this discharger's reports; partly covered or sparse source

Discharge events per month

17 events, Jan 2022 to Nov 2026.

  • Combined sewer overflow
  • Sanitary sewer overflow
  • Bypass, blended or other
  • No source
  • Partly covered or sparse source
Sparse sourceSparse source

No source covers 2022-01 to 2022-04. EPA ECHO sewer overflow records are sparse (only what permittees file with EPA). EPA ECHO facility-report events for Rhode Island are sparse (only what permittees file with EPA).

Sources: EPA ECHO sewer overflow events; EPA ECHO facility reports (RI). Covered 2022-05-03 to 2026-11-02.

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Discharge events per month
MonthCombined sewer overflowSanitary sewer overflowBypass, blended or otherTotalCounted fromCoverage
Jan 20220000No source
Feb 20220000No source
Mar 20220000No source
Apr 20220000No source
May 20220000Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20220000Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20220000Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20220000Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20220000Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20220000Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20220000Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 20220000Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
May 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 20230000Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 20240000Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 20240011Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
Mar 20240505Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
Apr 20240101Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
May 20240000Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20240000Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20240101Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
Aug 20240000Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20240000Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20240000Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20240000Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 20240000Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 20250101Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
Apr 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
May 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 20250000Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 20260101Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
Feb 20260101Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
Mar 20260202Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
Apr 20260202Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
May 20260000Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20260000Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20260000Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20260000Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20260202Source recordsPartly covered or sparse source
Oct 20260000Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20260000Partly covered or sparse source

Hours under advisory per month

Hours this discharger's reports put a water under an advisory, by the map's red rules.

  • Advisory in effect
  • No source
  • Partly covered or sparse source
Sparse sourceSparse source

No source covers 2022-01 to 2022-04. 15 discharge events have no reported end and no ongoing status; under the status rules they set caution, not an advisory, and add no hours here. Official beach and cyanobacteria advisories are counted on water pages only. EPA ECHO sewer overflow records are sparse (only what permittees file with EPA). EPA ECHO facility-report events for Rhode Island are sparse (only what permittees file with EPA).

Sources: EPA ECHO sewer overflow events; EPA ECHO facility reports (RI). Covered 2022-05-03 to 2026-11-02.

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Hours under advisory per month
MonthHours under advisoryFrom discharge windowsHours in monthCoverage
Jan 202200744No source
Feb 202200672No source
Mar 202200744No source
Apr 202200720No source
May 202200744Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 202200720Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 202200744Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 202200744Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 202200720Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 202200744Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 202200720Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 202200744Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 202300744Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 202300672Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 202300744Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 202300720Partly covered or sparse source
May 202300744Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 202300720Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 202300744Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 202300744Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 202300720Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 202300744Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 202300720Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 202300744Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 202400744Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 20247272696Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 202400744Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 202400720Partly covered or sparse source
May 202400744Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 202400720Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 2024240240744Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 202400744Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 202400720Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 202400744Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 202400720Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 202400744Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 202500744Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 202500672Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 202500744Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 202500720Partly covered or sparse source
May 202500744Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 202500720Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 202500744Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 202500744Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 202500720Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 202500744Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 202500720Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 202500744Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 202600744Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 202600672Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 202600744Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 202600720Partly covered or sparse source
May 202600744Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 202600720Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 202600744Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 202600744Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 202600720Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 202600744Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20260032Partly covered or sparse source

Days with a discharge per month

A day counts when any counted discharge was under way on it (start to reported end, local time); an event with no end counts its start day.

  • No source
  • Partly covered or sparse source
Sparse sourceSparse source

No source covers 2022-01 to 2022-04.

Sources: EPA ECHO sewer overflow events; EPA ECHO facility reports (RI). Covered 2022-05-03 to 2026-11-02.

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Days with a discharge per month
MonthDays with a dischargeCoverage
Jan 20220No source
Feb 20220No source
Mar 20220No source
Apr 20220No source
May 20220Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20220Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20220Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20220Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20220Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20220Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20220Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 20220Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 20230Partly covered or sparse source
May 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 20230Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 20240Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 20241Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 20244Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 20241Partly covered or sparse source
May 20240Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20240Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20247Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20240Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20240Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20240Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20240Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 20240Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 20251Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 20250Partly covered or sparse source
May 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Dec 20250Partly covered or sparse source
Jan 20261Partly covered or sparse source
Feb 20261Partly covered or sparse source
Mar 20262Partly covered or sparse source
Apr 20261Partly covered or sparse source
May 20260Partly covered or sparse source
Jun 20260Partly covered or sparse source
Jul 20260Partly covered or sparse source
Aug 20260Partly covered or sparse source
Sep 20262Partly covered or sparse source
Oct 20260Partly covered or sparse source
Nov 20260Partly covered or sparse source

Hours under advisory per year

Hours under advisory each year; 2026 to date.

  • Advisory in effect
  • Partly covered or sparse source
Sparse sourceSparse source

15 discharge events have no reported end and no ongoing status; under the status rules they set caution, not an advisory, and add no hours here. Official beach and cyanobacteria advisories are counted on water pages only.

Sources: EPA ECHO sewer overflow events; EPA ECHO facility reports (RI). Covered 2022-05-03 to 2026-11-02.

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Hours under advisory per year
YearHours under advisoryShare of the yearCoverage
202200.0%Partly covered or sparse source
202300.0%Partly covered or sparse source
20243123.6%Partly covered or sparse source
202500.0%Partly covered or sparse source
202600.0%Partly covered or sparse source

Discharge events by calendar month, all years

Every counted discharge event, by the calendar month it began.

Months are summed over every year a source covers; the table gives the number of years behind each month.

Sources: EPA ECHO sewer overflow events; EPA ECHO facility reports (RI). Covered 2022-05-03 to 2026-11-02.

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Discharge events by calendar month, all years
MonthEventsYears of records
Jan10
Feb20
Mar80
Apr30
May00
Jun00
Jul10
Aug00
Sep20
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
How these charts are counted

Discharge events are counted once: where a source publishes both public notices and verified reports (MassDEP, Vermont DEC), a discharger's month with any verified report counts its verified reports only, and other months count notices. Revisions are folded into the record they revise, and EPA copies of a state report are not counted twice. Monthly and yearly totals (Maine DEP, EPA discharge monitoring reports, Portsmouth) are shown on their own and never added to the event counts. Hours under advisory follow the map's red rules. A muted band marks periods no source covers: a gap there is missing data, not a quiet month.

  • EPA ECHO sewer overflow events: 2022-05-03 to now (sparse)
  • EPA ECHO facility reports (RI): 2024-02-11 to now (sparse)