Town of Charlestown Response to NEC FUTURE Tier 1 Final EIS
Dozens of homes, three historic mill villages, including Burdickville, Columbia Heights and Kenyon, active and historic farms, including the Amos Green Farm and Stoney Hill Farm, Narragansett Tribal land, 17 private open space properties, the Francis Carter Preserve owned by The Nature Conservancy, and an archived Superfund site which was once the location of a nuclear processing facility. In addition the By-Pass crosses the Pawcatuck River, nominated by Congress as a Wild and Scenic River, and lies entirely within the land management area of the recently established Fish and Wildlife Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge and the EPA designated Wood-Pawcatuck Sole Source Aquifer.