Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council

Address: 27 Sims Avenue
Providence, RI 02909

Telephone: 401.861.9046

Fax: 401.861.9038

Email: Jennifer Pereira, Executive Director   jpereira@woonasquatucket.org

Website:  www.woonasquatucket.org

Organization Description: 

The Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council ("WRWC") promotes the restoration and preservation of the Woonasquatucket River watershed as an environmental, recreational, cultural, and economic asset of the State of Rhode Island. The Council works in all six communities in the watershed promoting initiatives which protect and enhance the watershed. 

The Woonasquatucket River Greenway Project is a program of the watershed council, and provides recreational and educational programming in addition to promoting the full implementation of the Greenway Project in Providence. 

The Woonasquatucket River Greenway Project is a catalyst for renewal along the Woonasquatucket River in Providence. The green linear park is revitalizing a major hidden natural resource on the West Side of the City and becoming a destination for neighborhood residents and people throughout Providence and Rhode Island. A bicycle/pedestrian path links recreational areas, green spaces, destination sites, and the neighborhoods of Manton, Hartford, and Valley, as well as Olneyville and Smith Hill (Enterprise Community neighborhoods) to Waterplace Park in downtown Providence.

The Greenway and restored parks provide needed urban recreation areas, address local transportation needs, and promote restoration of abandoned industrial sites and impaired riverbank habitats.

The project’s main goals are to increase the recreational and green space available to local residents, promote economic development and reduce crime, promote river conservation and environmental action, and increase awareness of local history and river ecology.