San Diego received nearly $6 million to help protect businesses from flooding. | Adobe Stock
San Diego received nearly $6 million to help protect businesses from flooding. | Adobe Stock
San Diego received a $5.98 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to protect businesses from flooding.
“This project will build the infrastructure needed to reduce flooding and sedimentation that negatively impacts downstream industry and businesses in San Diego’s Maple Canyon,” then-Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in an EDA release in mid-January.
The grant is part of $600 million given to the EDA by Congress to fund natural disaster relief and recovery efforts.
The funding is provided through the Economic Adjustment Assistance Program.
“The Economic Development Administration plays an important role in supporting locally-driven disaster recovery and resiliency plans,” Dana Gartzke, performing the delegated duties of the assistant secretary of commerce, said in the release. “This project will support the final design, permitting, easement acquisition, and construction of vital infrastructure needed to protect San Diego businesses.”
In addition to mitigating the impact of flooding, the EDA grant will also help retain 2,000 jobs.
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