The federal Environmental Protection Agency is withholding funding that would have gone towards extreme weather education and disaster preparedness in Cheshire County.

The group NH Healthy Climate had planned on using $75,000 towards preparing rural Cheshire County towns for potentially disastrous flooding in the future.

“It's one thing for a city like Keene or Portsmouth to have people working on their flood mitigation proposals,” said Paul Friedrichs, a NH Health Climate board member. “But you take a town of Langdon with a population of six or 700 people, they're not going to have the resources to do that flood preparation planning.”

Friedrichs recalled parts of Cheshire County experienced a major flooding event in October, 2005 that killed seven people and destroyed over 100 home

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