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Harris County Approves $825 Million Flood-Mitigation Project List For HUD/GLO Funds

Harris County Approves $825 Million Flood-Mitigation Project List For HUD/GLO Funds
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Source: Reduce Flooding Blog - Bob Rehak
Date: 06/06/2023 7:32pm

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Harris County approves $825 million flood-mitigation project list for HUD/GLO funds, divided into primary and backup recommendations, with factors such as low-to-moderate income scores, prioritization framework ranking, social vulnerability index scores,
Harris County Flood Control District has approved an $825m flood-mitigation and disaster-relief project list of channel improvements and stormwater-detention-basin projects. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated the funds to Harris County via the Texas General Land Office, with the projects requiring an additional $145m in local-match funds from the 2018 Flood Bond. The projects have been split into primary and backup recommendations, with factors such as low-to-moderate income scores, prioritisation framework rankings and social vulnerability index scores used to determine recommendations. HCFCD must also come back to Commissioners Court by July 18 with an estimate for ongoing maintenance and land management costs for all the projects.

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