Legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act to address the repair and rehabilitate of urban canals.
The Urban Canal Modernization Act would authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to provide communities with a 35 percent non-reimbursable cost share to help repair and rehabilitate “urban canals of concern” in urban areas where significant property damage or loss of life could result if the canals failed.
An “urban canals of concern” is defined as a canal that, if it failed, would have an estimated at-risk population of more than 100 people and cause property damage of more than $5 million.
