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Council approves FEMA grant applications for Trafalgar neighborhood drainage and Lake Ellsworth dam scoping
Summary
Greenville approved applications for federal resilience grants to reduce repetitive flooding in the Trafalgar neighborhood and to fund scoping and emergency planning for Lake Ellsworth Dam.
The Greenville City Council voted Feb. 10 to approve staff applications to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FEMA for federal resilience grants aimed at stormwater and dam planning.
City Engineer Daryl Norris described two grant applications tied to watershed master-plan priorities. “This is for two grant applications for projects identified in our watershed master plans,” Norris said. He told the council the Trafalgar neighborhood experiences frequent flooding during heavy afternoon rain events and that the grant would finance culvert improvements and benching to reduce street and home inundation.
Norris said the second application would fund scoping work for the Lake Ellsworth Dam, including reviewing the emergency action plan and inundation mapping to prepare a future repair application. “This is a scoping grant, to develop a future grant application to actually make the repairs,” he said.
Council member Blackburn moved approval and Council member Robinson seconded. The council approved the motion 6-0.
The project descriptions were presented as grant applications; no construction contract or construction funding was authorized at the Feb. 10 meeting. Norris said the Trafalgar work builds on an earlier Quarry Road project that is in design-build procurement and that the grant funding would “help alleviate the flooding in that neighborhood” but would not eliminate all flooding.
The grant applications were listed on the consent agenda (item 6) and were pulled for council discussion before the vote.
