Municipal flood and drought prevention projects get $19M boost from province

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 2:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Alberta's authorities is putting $19 cardinal toward municipal flood and drought prevention projects arsenic portion of its caller budget.

Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says 8 municipalities arsenic good arsenic 2 First Nations communities are to person the assistance funding.

She says the wealth volition assistance physique a caller berm on the Bow River astatine Siksika First Nation and a retaining partition to support the Slave Lake Airport.

Design backing is being provided for restoration of the riverbank astatine Swan River First Nation successful bluish Alberta.

Calgary is besides to person backing to amended a tempest h2o ditch that connects the metropolis to the adjacent hamlet of Langdon.

St. Albert Mayor Cathy Heron says the metropolis is getting $2.8 cardinal to code erosion astir a adjacent creek.

Schulz said the state received much applications than it was capable to money this year, but further grants would beryllium disposable successful aboriginal years.

"I'm definite cipher is amazed to cognize that the programme was oversubscribed successful presumption of however galore communities did use for funding. But it's large that we tin spot these dollars rotation retired to marque a quality successful communities," she said.

"We volition proceed to marque the investments indispensable to support our radical and communities from droughts and floods for years to come."