FEMA has awarded about $700,000 to Arizona and the Havasupai Tribe to fund hazard mitigation projects. The money came from a program the federal agency had nixed but was reinstated by the courts earlier this year.
Back in March, a federal judge ordered FEMA to take steps to reverse its termination of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.
This came after Arizona’s Kris Mayes and other attorneys general successfully sued when a previous order to reinstate the program was seemingly ignored.
More than $400,000 will go to the state to help prevent flooding in Prescott.
The Havasupai Tribe is receiving more than $300,000 for flood warning systems.
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Arizona's top water negotiator wrote to federal water managers and laid legal issues with its plan for managing the Colorado River. -
The Grand Canyon National Park implemented increased water restrictions this week. Most of the changes involve two campgrounds on the South Rim. -
Cities around the Phoenix area are reducing their take on the Colorado River and leaving water in Lake Mead. Millions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act are helping ease the pain. -
The project to clean up sediment and soil in the Rio Sonora comes more than a decade after what Mexico considers the worst environmental mining disaster in its history. Some say the government and Grupo México could have done more and demand transparency. -
A new study says the tiny alpine streams that feed rivers like the Colorado are seeing less groundwater-fed streamflow. That could have a cascading effect.
