FLOYD TAGS DARBY. QUARRY STREET FLOODED BY MURKY WATER
Philadelphia, PA -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is providing more than $1 million to help Darby Borough residents escape the risk of serious flooding, federal officials announced today.
FEMA offered $1, 337, 500 toward the acquisition of 20 properties in the Delaware County community, said Peter G. Cote, of FEMA. The FEMA funding represents 75 percent of the $1,783,333 estimated project cost. Pennsylvania will provide 22 percent. The remainder will come from community sources.
The houses are located along Eighth Street and Springfield Road. The area was inundated during Hurricane Floyd on Sept. 16, 1999.
This project is the second in Darby underwritten in large part by FEMA. Forty-three dwellings in the Chestnut Street area were purchased soon after the disaster and demolished.
Money for the FEMA share comes from the Hurricane Floyd supplemental fund allocated by Congress. Houses acquired must have been substantially damaged by Hurricane Floyd. They must have been rendered not habitable by the hurricane. Only primary residences in the 100-year flood plain were eligible.
