REGINA — The Water Security Agency (WSA) is offering a cost-sharing rebate to help communities implement proactive flood damage prevention and reduction measures. The Flood Damage Reduction Program (FDRP) supports cities, towns, villages and hamlets at risk of recurrent flood damage.
FDRP is part of an overall $500,000 investment that transitions from the Emergency Flood Damage Reduction Program (EFDRP) announced in April, which deals only with imminent flood risk, to a more proactive longer-term program. Any funds that have not been spent under EFDRP transitions to FDRP.
Applications will be accepted until Oct. 1, 2023. The project work will need to be completed by March 31, 2024.
WSA will accept applications for:
- hydrologic and/or hydraulic investigations to develop risk assessments;
- flood mapping projects;
- mitigation planning, where municipalities develop emergency flood response plans or potential flood damage prevention construction designs; and,
- construction of permanent flood protection works.
A list of eligible costs can be found online at: www.wsask.ca/water. Eligible projects will be cost-shared on a 50/50 basis between WSA and the proponent, up to $100,000 per project.
For more information on the program, please wsask.ca/water-programs/flood-damage-prevention/.
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