# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-04-24T14:15:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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It came from a press release issued on April 4 from the Department of Homeland Security: all approved grants and applications for FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, or BRIC, were cancelled. President Donald Trump’s administration called BRIC “wasteful,” “ineffective,” and “more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters.” The program, which was started in 2018 after congressional approval, funded projects meant to mitigate potential hazards and prevent further economic investment in cleanups.

BRIC’s cancellation means more than 200 projects in North Carolina are now left without a key funding source – including a major one in Hillsborough.

The Town of Hillsborough is now scrambling for ways to move forward with relocating and replacing its River Pump Station, a critical water and sewer infrastructure effort that may be far too expensive for the local government to shoulder before it needs to begin construction. Mayor Mark Bell spoke with 97.9 The Hill, saying the replacement project has been in the works for several years to move the 1970s-era wastewater pump station out of the Eno River flood plain and to a safer area. After having their grant application approved in 2021, Hillsborough was not far from being able to put the project into motion.

“We had done a lot of planning, the design work was done, and we were about to put this out to RFP in June of this year,” Bell said, “and the funding was rescinded. What that means, practically, is that Hillsborough will have a $6 million hit to our water and sewer capital improvement program – which is a huge hit for us.”
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