Louisiana is receiving 134 million dollars in federal money to offset the effects of climate change and reduce chronic flooding. Louisiana Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson says projects that will receive this funding are currently being identified
“So these dollars will be used to do everything from elevating roads, to elevating bridges, to hardening infrastructure, ” Wilson explains.
Wilson says that the 134 million dollars will be spread out over the next five years, so the state is expected to receive 25 million dollars this fiscal year.
“As opposed to spending three to five hundred million dollars a year on road elevations,” he adds.
Wilson says there are a large number of bridges and roads that stand to be elevated and can benefit for this latest allotment from the federal government…
“It’s in response to climate change impacts on roads that were built thirty, forty, fifty years ago in some cases but can no longer handle the capacity of rain,” says Wilson.
Wilson says the money can also be used to update pumping capacity.
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