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  Flooding Solutions Bring Relief to Arkansas Communities

  November 6th, 2024 by Tanya Thompson, AICP

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  In many predominantly Black rural towns and small cities across eastern and southern Arkansas, residents have faced ongoing flooding challenges for years. Compounding the flooding, these areas are typically economically disadvantaged, and limited resources combined with insufficient funding, hinder the efforts to improve the infrastructure needed to tackle these flooding problems correctly. DRMP actively contributed to efforts aimed at addressing these challenges through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations (WFPO) Program.

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