EDMONTON — Alberta municipalities and Indigenous communities can now apply for major funding to help protect people, homes and infrastructure from floods and drought.
This fall, $25 million is available as part of the five-year, $125 million Drought and Flood Protection Program.
To date, $50 million has been invested into 28 projects, including funding to help the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo improve its water infrastructure and Siksika Nation build roadways to act as flood berms, states a release.
The program has also helped Medicine Hat protect its wastewater treatment plant from flooding and Pincher Creek install water intakes within the Crowsnest River and assess future options to help meet water demand.
Eligible projects include, but are not limited to:
- Drought and flood-proofing or relocation of critical infrastructure and infrastructure required to access those services.
- Structural measures such as berms, flood walls, bank protection and stabilization works, retention ponds and diversion structures.
- Purchase of property for the purpose of relocation or for access to and/or construction of a project.
- Infrastructure designed to increase flood attenuation and reduce the impacts of drought.
The application deadline is Dec. 1. Municipalities, improvement districts, special areas, Metis Settlements, First Nations and, new this year, regional service commissions and Tribal Councils, are all eligible to apply.
More information can be found at .
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