The four states were selected because they have the highest number of unmitigated severe repetitive loss and repetitive loss properties insured under the National Flood Insurance Program and total flood insurance claims within their respective FEMA regions. This is the first FEMA initiative funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to strengthen national preparedness and resilience. The new Swift Current initiative will expedite mitigation grants to disaster survivors with repetitively flooded homes. New Jersey received $10 million Pennsylvania, $5 million and Mississippi, $5 million (for a bridge project in Biloxi). Louisiana received the bulk of the money - $40 million. As part of that funding, the administration recently announced $60 million in Swift Current funding to four states, including Mississippi.

territories, federally recognized tribal governments and local governments for hazard mitigation activities, recognizing the growing hazards associated with climate change.Īlso, the Biden’s administration $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed into law last November, earmarks $3.5 billion in flood mitigation grants over five years. The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program makes federal funds available to states, U.S. 31, 2022, at Eagle Lake just north of Vicksburg, Miss. Arkansas successfully lobbied Congress to remove the Eudora Floodway from the Mississippi River & Tributaries Project, an action Mississippi’s then congressional delegation recognized would cause flooding in areas in the Mississippi Delta that had been safe.īrunswick and Halpino levee enlargement and berm work is underway Aug. Army Corps of Engineers first proposed the combination of levees, drainage structures and pumps in 1941 in a response to an amendment to Congress’ Flood Control Act of 1929. The flooding lasted roughly five months and sparked a renewed and ongoing debate over whether to revive the stalled federal Yazoo backwater pumps project, repeatedly approved and pulled over issues of cost sharing, concerns about its impact on wetlands and who would benefit. In the south Mississippi Delta, flood waters in 2019 inundated 687 homes, and more than 500,000 acres were flooded in the Yazoo backwater. Domain menu for The Enterprise Journal (main)

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