Salisbury to receive $1.2 million to Repair Culvert

The Newburyport Daily News recently reported that the town of Salisbury is in line to receive $1.2 million in state and federal grants to purchase pipeline to repair a Route 1 culvert that had collapsed in 2007.  Flooding caused by the collapsed culvert has cost local businesses “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in water damage over the past four years.

The culvert is located on Bridge road and allows Town Creek, a tributary of the Merrimack River, to flow underneath the road. Town Creek waters are known to rise with the spring’s high waters as well as during high tides in the ocean.

Officials had been working for three years with state and federal legislature for receive funding from FEMA’s hazard mitigation program. After two attempts FEMA approved a grant that will cover three-quarters of the project, the rest coming from state funding. Town Manager Neil Harrington credited Congressman John Tierney for securing the grant.

The town now waits for Governor Patrick’s office to announce that the money is officially on its way.

Read the entire Newburyport Daily News article.