Government allocates €90,000 to repair drainage systems in Talsi municipality
On 20 October the Latvian government approved €90,000 from the state budget's contingency funds. The money is meant to repair damage that heavy rains in July caused to state drainage systems in Talsi municipality.
The Latvian government on Tuesday, 20 October, backed a proposal from the Ministry of Agriculture to allocate €90,000 from the state budget funds set aside for unforeseen cases. The money is intended to remedy damage that heavy rainfall caused in July this year to state-owned land drainage systems in Talsi municipality, in the Kurzeme region.
Land drainage systems are water-removal infrastructure that regulates water levels on farmland and other territory. The headline of the original report says the damage was caused by both the heavy rains and a storm.
The funds come from the part of the state budget reserved for contingencies, meaning spending that was not planned in advance. The source does not say which specific sites will be restored, when the work will begin or how long it is expected to take.
