The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will help fund a Maryland flood resilience project with a low-cost $75 million loan.
The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) funds to Howard County, Md. will go toward the $167-million Ellicott City Safe and Sound plan, which county officials say will upgrade local infrastructure in a historic mill town south of Baltimore where multiple branches of the Patapsco River converge and join its main channel