City Of Wilkes-Barre: Mayor George C. Brown Announces Grant Received For Brookside Levee Rehabilitation Project

Wilkes-Barre PA

22 April, 2022

4:20 PM

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Press release from the City of Wilkes-Barre: April 20, 2022 The City of Wilkes-Barre has been awarded $350,000 to fund the engineering and design work necessary for the Brookside Levee Rehabilitation Project. The project had to undergo the formal approval process which included approvals from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Mitigation Program Advisory Board, and the Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority Board. Mayor Brown thanks Chris Belleman, Executive Director of the Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority and his staff, Luzerne County, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for their coordination to achieve funding for this much needed rehabilitation. This press release was produced by the City of Wilkes-Barre. The views expressed here are the author's own.