Auditor Questions State's Flood Program Spending

The state Department of Water Resource (DWR) has received harsh criticism from State Auditor Elaine Howle for the department’s administration of a flood protection corridor program. The auditor found that DWR lacked objective criteria for scoring applicants when it awarded $28 million in bond funds to five projects in 2001, and did not require mandated information from applicants when it awarded $29.1 million in 2003.
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