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Washington Department of Ecology’s Office of Chehalis Basin Commits Another $17 Million Towards North Shore Levee

Those funds along with a recent FEMA grant of $50 million as well as local funding.

The Washington Department of Ecology’s Office of Chehalis Basin has committed another $17 million in state funding towards the North Shore Levee project.  Those funds along with a recent FEMA grant of $50 million as well as local funding bring the total for the for the flood mitigation project to $78 million. The North Shore Levee began as several individual projects and as they linked together and grew in scale, it attracted both state and federal dollars. Once complete the structure will help protect 5,100 properties and nearly 1,000 businesses against flood damage. 

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