Merritt’s hope for Flood recovery funding may not be dead in the water
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MERRITT, B.C. — Earlier this week, city of Merritt officials held a press conference to announce that the community had been denied flood recovery funding from the Federal Government in the form of Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Funding (DMAF)
Without the federal assistance to rebuild the diking system throughout the city along the Coldwater River, the city of Merritt will flood again.
In response to the denial to not only Merritt but Princeton and Abbotsford as well, Central Okanagan Similkimeen Nicola MP Dan Albas penned a letter to Canada’s Infrastructure Minister Sean Fraser.
“In the over two years since, the municipalities have gone through lengthy and expensive applications for federal funding through the Disaster Mitigation & Adaptation Fund. We were shocked to see that on June 3, their applications were denied. By denying this application, the government is turning their backs on our region and putting critical national infrastructure at risk,” reads the letter in part.
