WESLACO – The good news keeps coming for Hidalgo County and those who have pushed for drainage and flood control projects to provide relief for communities hard-hit by recent and repeated extreme rain events. Precinct 1 Commissioner David L. Fuentes is pleased to announce that he was just informed by the Texas General Land Office Community Development and Revitalization division (GLO-CDR) that $9.96 million in grant funding has been awarded to Hidalgo County for Phase 2 of the Main Floodwater Channel Expansion Project. The project was submitted by Hidalgo County under the Mitigation 2016 State Most Impacted and Distressed (SMID) grant ...