Will fund energy- and water-related projects
WESTERN ILLINOIS -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin has announced the following projects in western Illinois have been approved in the U.S. Senate as part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations bill:
-$900,000 in funding to allow the Rock Island District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the Mississippi River in various communities along the river
-$640,000 in funding to expand an ongoing ecosystem study of the Upper Mississippi River to include the impact of tributaries on the river. The study will determine federal interest in greater flood risk management for transportation infrastructure, flood reconstruction, and system-wide flood risk management, ecosystem restoration, nutrient management, recreation and watershed management.
-$9 million in funding for continued preconstruction engineering and design work. This work is a necessary precursor for the construction of a new lock and dam system on the Upper Mississippi River.
The following project also was included in the bill under U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, General Investigations: Illinois River Basin Restoration ($400,000)
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