Worcester awarded $1.2M grant to study climate change impacts on the city
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The City of Worcester has been granted nearly $1.2 million for research on the city’s drainage system and the impact of climate change on the city.
The grant has been awarded by the Massachusetts’ Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness program and administered by the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs to help the city create a plan to work on solutions to help with heat islands and flooding in some of the city’s neighborhoods.
The competitive grants support cities and towns in identifying climate hazards, developing strategies to improve resilience, and implementing priority actions to adapt to climate change, according to a Friday press release sent out by the city.
Worcester is one of 73 projects awarded a grant in the last round of funding.
Worcester was awarded the grant to study the municipal drainage system and its constraints, identify the most vulnerable areas, and develop solutions to flooding and the heat island effect using both natural and man-made infrastructure.
The state’s Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness program has awarded $100 million in 2017 for local climate action projects.
The city will hold citizen science programs to study flooding and public workshops for feedback. The information for those meetings will be shared once they are scheduled.
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