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Nueces River Authority offers regional flood‑mapping grant; county match and loan option discussed
Summary
The Nueces River Authority outlined a $30 million regional flood‑mapping project funded by the Texas Water Development Board that would remap Dimmit County down to 6‑inch resolution. Participation would require a 25% local match for Dimmit of about $382,000; the Authority proposed a 10‑year 0% loan option to spread the cost.
Travis Buski, chief operations officer for the Nueces River Authority, told the Dimmit County commissioners on Nov. 10 that the Authority has been awarded a Texas Water Development Board grant to update flood maps across the region and that most county maps are decades out of date.
Buski said the regional program would remap the entire county at 6‑inch resolution, produce watershed modeling, and support development of a multi‑county early‑warning system. He said Dimmit County’s last FEMA countywide modeling was completed in 1987 and that the most recent FEMA revision in 2007…
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