WASHINGTON – Congress approved and President Donald Trump signed into law a $2 million appropriation to help reduce flood risk along the Amite River.

“This funding will enable grading to restore the natural slope and width-to-depth ratios, installation of in-stream and bank stabilization structures, and revegetation of bare floodplain areas along the Upper Amite River to reduce flow velocities, bank erosion, and downstream sediment transport,” U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, R-Baton Rouge, wrote leadership on the House Committee on Appropriations on behalf of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservative District, based in Baton Rouge.

US Rep. Julia Letlow letter to House Appropriations leadership

The project hopes to restore meanders in the river, allow for more flood water storage, r

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