Trump Country Begs For Clean Water
FEMA Money Held Up So Flood-Ravaged County Resorts to GoFundMe to Rebuild Its Water System
A rural water district in a northern Nebraska county that voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election had to resort to setting up a gofundme account when a flood wiped out running water to half of the county for six months.
Rancher Rex Black, the president of the Boyd County Rural Water District, hopes FEMA eventually reimburses the district 75% of the $1.7 million to $1.8 million cost to run a new water pipe under the Niobrara River and other expenses. The district got a no-interest loan from the state revolving loan fund, and Black’s wife and daughter set up a gofundme account which helped raise more than $300,000 toward the cost of repairs.
“They told me it will be four to five years out,” said Black who voted for Trump. “I sure hope it comes through because it will be hard on our little water district if it doesn’t.”
A FEMA spokesman said the agency is compiling information about the project.
Residents of Spencer, Lynch, Anoka and about 450 farms and ranches in Boyd County relied on bottled water to drink after a dam on the Niobrara River failed in March, washing away the district’s water main. Much of the county went without running water they could drink until September.
https://www.dcreport.org/2019/10/04/trump-country-begs-for-clean-water/
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