U.S. Department of Transportation says it is working with other federal agencies.
Residents of Shiloh Community in Coffee County said that they experienced more flooding after the expansion of a nearby highway.The U.S. Department of Transportation says it would need congressional allocation to be able to provide direct help to the Shiloh community, near Elba, Coffee county, but in the meantime is working with other federal agencies to get resources.
A voluntary agreement between the Alabama Department of Transportation and the federal transportation agency in October provides a path to fix the flooding, which the community says startedBut the community, which says it has dealt with flooding for six years, wants relief payments beyond the Voluntary Resolution Agreement .
“They told us they’re doing a whole-of-government approach, that’s good,” Williams said. “What they’re doing, finding other avenues. But that’s not going to solve an emergency situation right now because you have to wait months and years just to get that money,” “We’re not grant writers,” Williams said. “We don’t know how to do that stuff. We’re at the mercies of other people. If the community doesn’t know how to do grants and doesn’t have anybody working with them, then they would be left in the cold.”
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