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Clallam County designates applicant for FEMA BRIC scoping grant to study recurrent flooding at 3 Crabs Road
Summary
After multiple residents described repeated property flooding since a 2017 estuary restoration, the Clallam County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution designating the county as applicant/agent for a FEMA BRIC scoping grant to develop options to raise County Road 52800 (3 Crabs Road) above flood elevation.
Clallam County commissioners on Feb. 11 voted unanimously to designate the county as applicant and agent for a FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) scoping grant to develop alternative options for raising County Road 52800 (known locally as 3 Crabs Road) above the flood elevation.
The action matters because residents said flooding began or worsened after completion of the Meadow Brook estuary restoration project and that repeated inundation has caused thousands of dollars in damage to private property and may require structural road changes. The resolution authorizes county staff to pursue the BRIC scoping grant through the Washington State Department of Emergency Management, with the stated purpose of producing a “grant-ready project” for later construction…
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