Staff reports
The City of Beaufort announced in a news release that it was recently notified that a grant it had received for $7.5 million from the South Carolina Department of Resiliency (SCOR) has been increased to $11.9 million to cover the increased costs of construction for the Charles/Craven streets stormwater project.
At its Nov. 12 meeting, City Council approved an amendment to the original 2023 resolution that executed an agreement between the City of Beaufort and SCOR for the stormwater project and its funding.
The project is overseen by SCOR, and is a state-managed project. The original estimate for the project did not anticipate that construction costs would increase as much as they have.
The project, to mitigate flooding and draining issues, is expected to begin construction in early 2025 with an April 2026 deadline to complete it. It is one of several stormwater construction projects now being developed in the City of Beaufort.
