The county commissioners have approved the hiring of an engineering firm to evaluate flooding issues in nine municipalities in the county's southern tier, and to come up with projects that could help mitigate flooding.

Mark Gordon, the county's chief of planning and economic development, told the commissioners the engineering firm Herbert, Rowland and Grubic (HRG) would review the release rates of water in each of the municipalities and determine how the rates could be adjusted to reduce flooding of the Connoquenessing and Breakneck creeks.

The cost for HRG to complete the study and engineer the mitigation actions is $76,380.

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