April 24, 2026
FEMA will give the city of Brevard $1,223,188 to replace this culvert below Hillview Street and Cashiers Valley Road after it was damaged during Hurricane Helene in 2025. City of Brevard
By Jonathan Rich
BrevardBeagle.com
The city of Brevard will be the recipient of more than $1.2 million in FEMA funding to replace a culvert below Hillview Street and Cashiers Valley Road damaged by Hurricane Helene in the fall of 2025.
The announcement came Friday as part of an overall release of nearly $260 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency public assistance funds to support ongoing hurricane recovery efforts across the state.
Earlier this month, the city of Brevard’s Public Works and Utilities Committee secured bids ranging from $1.03 million to $1.31 for the culvert replacement project.
FEMA public assistance funds will now pay the city of Brevard $1,223,188 for that work to be completed this August.
“I’m grateful to FEMA for working with us on such a complex project and for our friends in various congressional offices to shepherd our request through FEMA to where it is now,” said Brevard City Manager Wilson Hooper Friday afternoon.
City officials have previously discussed retaining a 15-to-20-foot section of the historic Tannery smokestack on nearby property as a memorial to its place in the history of Transylvania County along the Estatoe Trail, but funding for that part of the project would be a separate issue and paid for by the City of Brevard.