The provincial government have reimbursed the Township of Blandford-Blenheim after last year's floods.
BLANDFORD-BLENHEIM - The Township of Blandford-Blenheim received $202,000 from the provincial government.
The Township applied for the money following last year's floods.
Mayor Mark Peterson says the floods caused a lot of damage.
"We had two bridges that were closed for quite a while. The ice actually rest underneath the bottom of the bridge, some of the structures, and with Blandford-Blenheim we have 56 bridges in our Township. And it's a concern for all of them, but we have a lot of the old steel trussel-type bridges and that's where both the repairs were."
Mayor Peterson says the Township had to apply through the Municipal Disaster Recovery Assistance program.
"That money was for repairs of two bridges and some roadways that were either broken, pieces that were broken off the bridges or part of the roads that disappeared from the flooding last spring, so we applied for the provincial disaster relief funding and that's the funding that we got. It's a percentage of what you occur and it has to be a certain amount of dollars before you're allowed to apply for the funding as well."
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