PA's Rebuild Pennsylvania Initiative Aims to Protect Flood Prone Communities

Pennsylvania Governor Rendell's "Rebuild Pennsylvania" initiative provides resources to repair aging infrastructure and enhance flood protection strategies.

The Governor’s proposal will invest $100 million for flood-control projects over the next three years. Of that total, approximately $91 million would be available for capital flood protection projects, while the balance would be available to increase the number of flood-protection grants awarded to municipalities each year, boost support for stream improvement projects, and complete emergency closure work and rehabilitation projects. Under the enhanced flood-protection program, the state will have additional resources to help communities rehabilitate existing flood-protection structures and construct new ones, like waterway channels, floodwalls, levees and stream bank stabilization.

Rebuild Pennsylvania also includes a plan to address unsafe high-hazard dams in the commonwealth, along with outdated aviation and rail facilities. In addition to the $16 million for capital and municipal flood control projects and $12 million for repairs to state-owned dams in the first year of the plan, the initiative will accelerate the availability of $200 million for bridge repairs, $10 million for new rail freight projects, and $5 million for aviation projects in fiscal year 2008-09. http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/news/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=533893 

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