Group announces consultants, community meetings for $95.9M effort to alleviate flooding in Arkansas cities
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 23, 2023
The Arkansas Black Mayors Association is working in partnership with the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service on a first-of-its-kind, $95.9 million project to ease the impact of flooding on cities across southern and eastern Arkansas.
The improvement effort will target 14 watersheds and take place in three phases: planning, design and construction.
On Monday, the Black Mayors Association gathered in downtown Little Rock to announce the engineers they hope to bring on as project planning consultants and plans to hold community meetings in flood-prone areas.
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