Bluefield Daily Telegraph on federal funding that was approved for a flood prevention project in West Virginia’s Mercer County:
Federal funding has been secured for a significant flood control project for Mercer County. The $3.7 million award announced last week by U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., will help restore damage done to a flood control dam constructed back in 1966 in Mercer County.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding was authorized by the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. The goal of the project is to rehabilitate the area identified as Brush Creek Site 14 of the Brush Creek Watershed in Mercer County, effectively protecting hundreds of homes, businesses, and buildings in the Maple Acres, Glenwood, and Princeton areas from future flooding, Capito and Manchin said in a joint statement.