The Alberta government has announced $203.5 million in disaster recovery money for communities hard hit by severe spring snowstorms and flooding. The $200 million Southern Alberta Disaster Recovery Program offers assistance to people and municipalities across the south following severe flooding caused by a series of intense rainstorms June 15-21.Another $3.5 million is set aside through the Spring South Eastern Alberta Disaster Recovery Program to help those who experienced overland flooding because of extreme amounts of snow and rain April 13-May 31.The 2010 Southern Alberta Disaster Recovery Program will apply to residents in the municipalities of Cardston, Bow Island, Stirling, Hill Spring, Cowley, Glenwood, Magrath, Foremost, Fort Macleod, Medicine Hat, Brooks, Coaldale, Vauxhall, Redcliff, Duchess, Pincher Creek and Raymond, the municipal districts of Pincher Creek and Taber, the counties of Cardston, Newell, Warner and Cypress and the Blood and Piikani First Nations. The 2010 Spring South Eastern Alberta Disaster Recovery Program will apply to residents in the municipalities of Foremost, Vauxhall, Bow Island, Taber, Raymond, Medicine Hat, Redcliff and Cowley, the counties of Forty Mile and Cypress and the Blood First Nation. Registration centres will open across southern Alberta tomorrow to accept applications for aid. For more information, visit the disaster recovery program website.
Alta. unveils aid plan for snowstorm, flooding damage
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