Water & Waterway Infrastructure
Our recent water infrastructure accomplishments have included:
- $800,000 for a comprehensive regional water storage and quality project in southwest Florida;
- Obtained over $2.8 million to study the feasibility of restoring a fragile lagoon ecosystem in southern California
- Secured over $16.5 million in funding for environmental restoration projects that will protect essential migratory bird refuges and horseshoe crab nesting areas in New Jersey;
- $400,000 and authorizing language for a local water quality project in North Carolina; and
- We followed that success up with $210,000 in Planning Assistance to the States funding through the Army Corps of Engineers for the same local water quality and storage project.
In terms of other waterway infrastructure projects, we successfully secured recent funding for the following projects:
- $23,025,000 to make Operations and Maintenance repairs to a major Texas ship channel connecting multiple ports and other facilities to the Gulf of Mexico.
- $985,000 to continue a Corps of Engineers feasibility study to widen and deepen a 40-foot ship channel to 48-feet.
