HUD pumps $199M into region for flood relief

Boulder, Larimer and Weld counties will be the primary recipients of $199.3 million in federal flood relief.
The counties were among the hardest hit by last September’s floods.
The award bring to $262.1 million the total that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development agency has provided the state since last December, when it provided $62.8 million in flood recovery money.

“After visiting Lyons and Evans in December I promised HUD would do more to help the state recover,” HUD’s secretary Shaun Donovan said in a statement. “This additional money will fund a local vision to rebuild homes and businesses,…