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Richardson County considering flood plain buyout program

By John Nixon

09/24/2025

Missouri River, June 22, 2014

(KLZA)-- Richardson County Commissioners met with Emergency Management Agency Director Brian Kirkendall when they met September 17, discussing an opportunity of a buy-out program for property owners within a floodway provided by the Federal Emergency Managmeent Agency andNebraska Department of Natural Resources through a grant.

The purpose of the grant is to reduce flood damage and loss of life by removing structures from high flood risk areas and to restore natural floodplain functions.

The grant is available to communities to reduce their flood risk by helping homeowners move to a safer place out of the floodplain. The grant would cover most or all of the cost of purchasing a home or relocating the home to a non-flood zone area.

The price offered would be based on established appraisal standards.

Commissioners voted to send a letter to homeowners within the floodway areas of Richardson County to receive responses of interst from those homeowners in this prorgam. The area affected by this program would be the Lewis and Clark Estates located along the Missouri River, southeast of Rulo.

Kirkendall also presented a revised ordinance / resolution for floodway and flood fringe districts for review and future consideration.

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