Aug 28, 2026
BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today announced the delivery of over $7.84 million in new federal funding, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to help Vermont rebuild and recover infrastructure damaged by statewide severe flooding, landslides, and mudslides from 2017 to 2024. This funding includes $3,321,337 to Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) to repair and replace culverts…
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Jun 17, 2024
U.S. Senator Peter Welch, D-Vt., looks at some poems written by students from Green Street School during a tour of the floodplain restoration project along the Whetstone Brook in Brattleboro on Friday, June 14, 2024. Kristopher Radder / Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO — With the East Coast's…
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Jun 14, 2024
Mariam Zuhaib / Associated PressSen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., listens during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry oversight hearing on the Department of Agriculture on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Washington. A new report from the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee finds that flooding…
