Funding officially in place; Comite River diversion project costs covered
BATON ROUGE – The US Army Corps of Engineers has formally added hundreds of millions of dollars to the budget for a major Capital Area flood prevention project.
US Rep. Garret Graves said on Thursday that the Corps has fully funded the nearly $1 billion, decades-in-the-making Comite River Diversion Canal. The identification of $476 million to cover an anticipated shortfall comes two weeks after Graves said the Corps promised that the project would move forward as it finalized plans to pay for it.
“We’ve seen the cost of this project more than triple since we first ‘fully funded’ it in 2018,” Graves said.