The City of Fayetteville has recently experienced significant flood events. Since 2016, the City has experienced two record floods which prompted heightened attention to the City's watershed planning. With the assistance of engineering consultants, City staff is developing a Watershed Master Plan program to identify and prioritize areas of concern for flooding impacts. Stormwater management projects will be developed from this effort to provide solutions to flooding issues that have a significant public benefit. All proposed solutions from watershed studies that have been presented to Council have been approved for inclusion into the CIP. These proposed solutions have not yet been prioritized. The City anticipates as many as fifty (50) or more projects are forthcoming from our planning efforts for which federal and state grant funding assistance will be sought through WRDA, USACE, FEMA-FMA, FEMA-BRIC, FEMA-HMGP, ARPA, HUD Community Development Block Grant - Mitigation or Disaster Recovery, CWSRF, and other pertinent grant-funding agencies. The City intends to continue modeling as funding is available.
