With budget losses to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, mitigation grant programs to address riverine flooding could be impacted substantially. According to FEMA, every federal dollar spent on flood mitigation yields $7 in benefits.
Author Archives: Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens
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Latest federal Water Resources Development Act addresses climate extremes and flooding along the Mississippi River
Louisiana secured the bill’s largest project authorization, for St. Tammany Flood Risk Management. New Orleans scored authorization for a study about salt water in the river.