The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is making more than $250 million in funding to help states prevent damage from future flood disasters.
FEMA is moving forward with plans to fund more than 100 projects across 20 states. Distributed through FEMA’s Flood Mitigation Assistance and Swift Current programs, the funding will enable states to protect their communities from the devastating impact of floods, which are the most common and costly type of natural disaster.
FEMA’s Flood Mitigation Assistance Program funds community-led projects to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to structures and buildings insured by the National Flood Insurance Program.
The Swift Current grant opportunities are made available after Presidentially declared flood disasters to expedite the delivery of mitigation awards.
The largest awards include:
- $42 million to New Jersey for projects that include constructing, retrofit and upgrade storm sewer pump stations in Essex County; replacing and elevating bulkheads and constructing pump stations in Cape May County, and building and elevating pump stations in Atlantic County.
- $24 million to Ohio for flood control projects throughout the city of Findlay, including hardening the shoreline of the Blanchard River to decrease runoff and restoring more than 900 acres of the riverbank to native wetland.
- $20.2 million to Louisiana to help improve old infrastructure in neighborhoods in Livingston and St. Charles parishes that often flood during heavy rains, including building new systems to divert rainwater into a local canal in St. Charles Parish.
- $18.8 million to Oregon to help kickstart a flood control project. This will improve flood control infrastructure and lower hazard risks to residences and roadways that have faced dangerous flooding conditions.
- Approximately $15 million to Texas to build new water infrastructure, including basins and culverts, that will help control flooding and protect homes from flood damage. A $10.1 million grant will fund the construction of a series of six detention basins in the south end of Beaumont, along with underground delivery culverts and two detention basin improvements for flood control, and a $4.75 million grant will pay for the destruction of 15 structures on land in Garland that the city will own and allow to revert to its natural state.
- Over $14 million to the state of Iowa, including $13.1 million to the city of Clive for the acquisition and demolition of repetitive flood damaged commercial structures in the University Boulevard Flood Mitigation Plan area.
Photo by Connor Scott McManus from Pexels
For more of the latest from the expansive government marketplace, check Government Market News daily for new stories, insights and profiles from public sector professionals. Check out our national contracting newsletter here.
