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CFA Announces $34 Million In Funding For Flood-Control Projects
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The Commonwealth Financing Authority Thursday announced the approval of $34 million through the H2O PA program for the construction and repair of flood-control systems in five counties. “Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee brought powerful reminders of the damage and destruction that flooding can bring to communities,” Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary C. Alan Walker said. “These investments will be a great help to cash-strapped municipalities needing to upgrade their aging and deteriorating flood-control systems.”
Projects that involve the construction, improvement, repair, or rehabilitation of all or part of a flood-control system are eligible to apply for H2O PA funding. Flood-control projects include channel improvements, compacted earth levees, concrete channels, concrete floodwalls, detention dams, non-structural measures, or any combination of these project types. Major repairs to or rehabilitation of an existing flood-protection project are also eligible for funding.
Administered by the CFA, H2O PA provides grants for flood control projects, construction of drinking water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer projects and high hazard or unsafe dam projects.
A list of projects funded is available online.
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1/30/2012 |
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