{"id":23024,"date":"2022-06-07T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T23:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=23024"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T23:30:23","slug":"new-florida-funding-passes-house-polk-county-receives-10-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/06\/07\/new-florida-funding-passes-house-polk-county-receives-10-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"New Florida Funding Passes House Polk County receives 10 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today Rep. Demings supported the <a>passage of the Water Resource Development Act of 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA.\u2014$10,000,000 for wastewater infrastructure<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Rep.-Val-Demings.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23025\"\/><figcaption>Rep. Val Demings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today Rep. Val Demings (FL-10) highlighted House passage of critical funding for Florida, including projects to protect communities from flooding, stormwater, coast erosion, and algal blooms, as well as investments in waterways and the maritime economy. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/transportation.house.gov\/wrda2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Water Resource Development Act of 2022<\/a>&nbsp;is the key legislative vehicle for projects carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Rep. Demings serves as Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, &amp; Recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Said Rep. Demings, \u201cToday\u2019s bill will help ensure that Florida\u2019s ports, coasts, and waterways can remain the veins and arteries of our economy. We rely on safe, clean water for our recreation, tourism, and quality of life. Today\u2019s bill funds and authorizes projects to protect the Florida Keys, get algal blooms under control, and prevent flooding from Miami to the Panhandle, Jacksonville to Orlando, Tampa to the Everglades. I am proud to vote for this important funding to keep Florida moving, save homes and business from flooding, and keep our water clean and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Rep. Demings supported the passage of the Water Resource Development Act of 2022 POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA.\u2014$10,000,000 for wastewater infrastructure Today Rep. Val Demings (FL-10) highlighted House passage of critical&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2960],"class_list":["post-23024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-polk-county-receives-10-million-dollars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}