City about to close on federal stormwater loan
The Wolf River Harbor behind Mud Island is seen swollen by the historic floodwaters of the Mississippi River in 2011. (Daily Memphian file)
The low-interest loan will finance infrastructure to protect parts of the city from flooding.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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