The Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA) will ship greater than $1.8 million to the State of Vermont to reimburse the city of Highgate for the prices of a slope stabilization mission on Switch Station Street.
The funding for the mission is a part of a pool of grant cash supplied to the state after Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program offers funding to state, native, tribal and territorial governments to allow them to develop hazard mitigation plans and rebuild in a method that reduces future catastrophe losses of their communities.
After a presidentially declared catastrophe, states obtain HMGP cash equal to a share of the whole grants approved underneath different FEMA help packages. The state then administers the HMGP grants domestically, which may pay for initiatives that scale back flooding, or to raise and even purchase out flood-prone properties.
The $1,808,011 in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funding will assist tackle a landslide-prone space by excavating an estimated 17,810 cubic yards of subsoil and topsoil and flattening failing slide areas and transition areas.
The mission will then use an estimated 27,320 cubic yards of stone fill to rebuild the slope, in addition to set up a drainage swale and stone key. Roughly 2.3 acres of land will probably be cleared and there can even be stream channel realignment and widening undertaken. FEMA had already supplied some funding for preliminary surveying and design work.