Posted on 02.02.22
‘The mother lode’: Cities and counties across America clamor for slice of new infrastructure funds
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/, February 1, 2022
By: Yeganeh Torbati, Jonathan O’Connell and Tony Romm
Over the past decade, the small coastal city of Largo, Fla., has borrowed tens of millions of dollars from the state, partly to build piecemeal protections against rising sea waters that threaten flooding and major damage to the community, which sits squarely between the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay.
It hasn’t been enough: A recent budget enumerated nearly $77 million in unfunded projects, including protecting an industrial site from hurricane damage and paving with materials that better absorb water. Read more.
