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Metro Water Services describes hundreds of home buyouts, resulting open space and partnerships with parks
5080794 · June 26, 2025
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Metro Water Services assistant director Tom Palco summarized long-running buyout efforts that have acquired hundreds of flood-prone homes and converted them to open space, and said federal funding streams such as BRIC have changed.
Tom Palco, assistant director of Metro Water Services, told the commission that the agency has purchased hundreds of flood-prone homes and converted them to open space through partnerships, corps projects and Metro funding.
"As of today, we have purchased 476 houses, created 240 acres of open space," Palco said, describing projects on…
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