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As budget plans begin to gel in Raleigh, it’s growing more likely that North Carolina’s Land and Water Fund, a longtime driver of clean water and conservation projects in the state, could receive funding this cycle at levels not seen in more than a decade.
The fund, which was formed under the 2013 merger of the Clean Water Management Trust Fund and the Natural Heritage Fund, issued just over $21 million in grants in its last cycle from a list of applications totaling four times that amount. One of several areas of state government not funded through one of last year’s mini budgets, the Land and Water Fund appropriation has remained where it was in 2018. This year’s Senate budget calls for upping that amount considerably to $73.2 million in this fiscal year and $53.2 million next year.
A proposed levee along the Neuse River at Seven Springs and a pilot project to address chronic flooding in the Stoney Creek watershed are two of the items in flood-mitigation legislation making its way through the General Assembly.
The âDisaster Relief and Mitigation Act,â House Bill 500, would allocate more than $200 million on projects to prevent flooding and to plan ahead for damaging storms. It would be âthe largest and most comprehensive statewide investment that North Carolina has ever made to prepare for future storms,â said House Majority Leader John Bell, R-Wayne, one of the primary sponsors.
Approximately $15.2 million of that funding would be for projects that have an impact on Wayne County, Bell said.
A pilot project to address chronic flooding in the Stoney Creek watershed and a proposed levee along the Neuse River at Seven Springs are two of the items in flood-mitigation
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