FEMA has approved more than nine million dollars in federal funding to support recovery and mitigation projects across South Carolina following recent severe weather.
The funds will back twenty-one separate projects in communities heavily impacted by Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby.
Among the largest allocations is over $3.3 million dollars heading to the South Carolina Department of Transportation to repair the North Burris Road bridge in York County. Other notable projects include over seven hundred thousand dollars for culvert repairs in Simpsonville, and more than half a million dollars for road and bridge work in Anderson County.
Funding will also go toward debris removal in Greenwood, emergency protective measures in Laurens and Horry counties, and park repairs in Oconee County.
The federal government is covering at least seventy-five percent of the recovery costs through FEMA’s Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation programs.
