WOODSTOCK — The town has received a $200,000 grant to study flood mitigation efforts at Riverside Mobile Home Park.
The grant will go toward engineering studies to figure out how to best reduce the mobile home park’s flood risks, including one that will look at relocation sites for homes deemed most at risk of being flooded.
Sustainable Woodstock, which addresses the effects of climate change in Woodstock and the greater Upper Valley, applied for the grant on behalf of the town.
“We owe it to our community to find effective solutions and help keep everyone safe,” Jenevra Wetmore, Sustainable Woodstock’s executive director, said in a news release.
The Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development’s Department of Housing and Community Development awarded Woodstock the grant, which comes from money the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development provided to the state after the July 2023 floods, which affected the mobile home park.
The mobile home park, located on Riverside Park Road near the Ottauquechee River, is one of Woodstock’s “most flood-prone neighborhoods,” Municipal Manager Eric Duffy wrote in the release. Riverside also sustained heavy water damage during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.
“This project reflects Woodstock’s commitment to protecting our residents and planning
responsibly for a changing climate,” Duffy said in the release.
