{"id":7782,"date":"2026-07-15T18:33:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:33:59","slug":"dearborn-receives-8-million-fema-funds-for-stormwater-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/dearborn-receives-8-million-fema-funds-for-stormwater-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearborn receives $8 million FEMA funds for stormwater management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WDET<br>YAN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nargis Rahman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Dearborn is receiving federal funds to improve its sewer system.&nbsp;FEMA awarded $8.1 million for the upgrades.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dearborn&nbsp;Mayor Abdullah Hammoud&nbsp;says&nbsp;the project is installing a series of flapgates for flood mitigation efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRather than installing a backflow and individual homes, the flap gate is a backflow for a whole neighborhood, and so this will actually help us prevent flooding to a greater degree for about 3,000 homes in a neighborhood in Dearborn,\u201d he says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upgrades will be added betweenChase Road and Greenfield Avenue.&nbsp;About 6,200 feet of storm sewers will be added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hammoud says the goal is to increase the capacity of stormwater management.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can handle around three inches of rain every 24 hours of our storm event, and our goal is to try to increase that capacity by 50% increasing that capacity closer to four and a half inches, which will help alleviate the majority of flooding based on the storms that we\u2019re having now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Hammoud says in 2021 there was 7 inches of rain.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says it would take about $700 million in infrastructure investments in the next 15 to 20 years to meet that capacity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work is part of the second phase of a Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city has installed bioswales and rain gardens, swapped out grass easements to help absorb gallons of water and clearing out sediment and debris from the Colson Palmer line.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says the city is looking for&nbsp;additional&nbsp;funding for more stormwater mitigation efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is expected to be completed by next year. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WDETYAN Nargis Rahman The City of Dearborn is receiving federal funds to improve its sewer system.&nbsp;FEMA awarded $8.1 million for the upgrades.&nbsp; Dearborn&nbsp;Mayor Abdullah Hammoud&nbsp;says&nbsp;the project is installing a series of flapgates for flood mitigation efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cRather than installing a backflow and individual homes, the flap gate is a backflow for a whole neighborhood, and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7784,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}