Sunday, November 24, 2024
33.0°F

Boundary County: Emergency Management

| May 25, 2017 1:00 AM

Federal Emergency Management funds: On May 18, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Disaster Declaration for Boundary County and seven other northern and north-central Idaho counties. The declaration incident period is March 6-28, 2017 and induces the release of federal funds to help communities recover from the flooding, landslide, and mudslide damages that happened within the incident period. It is estimated that the eight counties exceeded $9.6 million in damages.

The Federal funding being issued will be utilized to repair disaster-damaged public infrastructures. These funds do not cover private property.