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Escambia County Awarded Grant For Eleven Mile Creek Stormwater Project
March 3, 2018
Congressman Matt Gaetz announced Friday an Escambia County stormwater project will receive grant money from the U.S. Treasury Department.
“The Office of Gulf Coast Restoration in the Department of the Treasury plans to award a $268,800.00 grant to Escambia County for planning assistance towards planning, design, and permitting of two stormwater ponds in Escambia County’s Eleven Mile Creek Basin,” he said.
The grant will be funded under the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (RESTORE Act). The stormwater ponds will reduce downstream stormwater flow rates and improve adjoining floodplains/wetlands, coastal flood protection, and overall water quality for the downstream outfall locations. The activities funded by the grant are identified as planning assistance for a coastal flood protection and related infrastructure eligible activity.
“This award will obligate $268,800.00, approximately 1.6 percent of Escambia County’s $16,589,894.27 Direct Component allocation as of December 31, 2017 from Deepwater Horizon oil spill civil penalties paid after July 6, 2012 under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,” Gaetz said.
The grant started on March 1, permitting Escambia County to begin the stormwater project and incur costs. The county will later be reimbursed with Direct Component funds.
Pictured: Eleven Mile Creek. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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This has been an absolute nightmare for those living on W. Robrts Road. The company hired has not had the first flag person for the safety of those that travel this road even into the dark of the afternoon. The destruction of yards to homeowners is without a doubt the worst I have ever seen. They have cut cable lines and then covered them up leaving some left unable to do their jobs and have a loss to their income and causing the cable workers to work into the late hours away from their families to fix it. Very unprofessional and I feel the county should be coming out and observing the project so they could see exactly what we are experiencing.
Great photo. This area is one of the most beautiful areas in the entire nation, and there is more than just beaches for visitors to enjoy. However, with all the increased weather events and flooding, the very things which are so beautiful seem to regularly bite us in the butt. The future will require increased budgets to deal with flooding and infrastructure damage.