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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set aside $20 million more to continue the design of Fort Worth’s central city flood project.
With the funding, design for all major components can be completed, according to city officials.
The funds are part of the now $443 million of total federal funding the project has received over the past three years.
The four design efforts underway will add to the additional ongoing designs of the North Bypass Channel, South Bypass Channel, Rockwood Park Valley Storage, University Drive Valley Storage, Oxbow Site E Valley Storage, Trinity Point, Clear Fork, and Tarrant Regional Water District Flood Gates and TRWD Pump Station, and all aquatic habitat mitigation.
It will also include Samuels Avenue Dam, Marine Creek Dam and Channel Expansion, West Fork Maintenance/Pedestrian Bridge, Rockwood Park Ecosystem Restoration, and Gateway/Oxbow Ecosystem Restoration.
The Fort Worth floodway levees were originally constructed in response to floods in the early 1900s.
This system was modified in the 1950s and incorporated as a congressionally authorized project.
The Fort Worth Floodway is a federally authorized and nonfederally operated and maintained, urban flood risk management system.
The current system, as we know it today, was constructed in the 1960s.
As a result of congressionally authorized floodway studies, it was determined that modifications were required to reduce flood risk.
Modified Central City Project has various components, including an approximate 8,400-foot bypass channel, three flood gates, one pump station, two dams, and valley storage mitigation sites.