Cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping the infrastructure law will bring badly needed funding to fortify levees, locks and other flood protection as climate change makes hurricanes stronger and wetter
will provide badly needed funding to fortify locks, levees and other flood protections. But community groups and advocates fear smaller cities will struggle to navigate the maze of government programs and miss out on the rare chance to protect against rising waters and heavy rains.
La Crosse, Wisconsin is among the cities trying to figure out how to benefit as infrastructure funds start rolling out. Upgrading the levees would be so expensive it's hard for the city to know how to get started, he said. Some advocates want agencies to make it easier for communities to learn about funding opportunities and ensure that simple applications from small towns will be able to compete against more sophisticated proposals from richer cities. They also want more clarity into how the Biden administrationThe Biden administration is asking states to make climate resilience a part of their long-term planning and encouraging projects that factor in flood risk.
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