Emergency Watershed Program

The Emergency Watershed Program (EWP) is a program administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service to respond to floods, fires, windstorms and other types of natural disasters. Types of work this program funds include: removing debris; reshaping and protecting eroded banks; correcting damaged drainage facilities; repairing levees and other water conveyance structures; and purchasing flood plain easements. For construction activities, it provides up to 75% of the project cost. It is almost always funded in supplemental appropriations that provide federal assistance to deal with a natural disaster.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 14, 2011. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.