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Rio Blanco County moves to prepare NRCS Emergency Watershed Protection application for post‑flood repairs
Summary
County staff were directed Oct. 17 to prepare an application to the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to fund road, drainage and watershed stabilization work estimated at about $7.2 million; NRCS would fund 75% of eligible costs if approved.
Rio Blanco County commissioners on Oct. 17 directed staff to prepare and submit an application to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service for the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to address flood- and erosion-related damage in a local watershed.
County staff reported NRCS’s preliminary estimate of eligible work at roughly $7,200,000 for a package of projects that would include landfill and gulch stabilization, road and culvert repairs, ditch cleaning and other watershed-stabilization work in areas described to the county as contributing to damage on roads and private property. A county staff member said NRCS would pay 75% of eligible costs if the project is accepted; the county would be responsible for the remaining share…
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