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  VICTORIA The B.C. government says it will provide $1.2 million for flood-mitigation projects in two Vancouver Island communities. The K omoks First Nation will get $472,000 for a project to prevent erosion, while the village of Zeballos on the northwest coast will get $750,000 for flood hazard and debris flow mitigation. The funding comes from the province s Community Emergency Preparedness Fund. “This program illustrates collaboration at its best,” said Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, in a statement Friday. “The benefit of a funding program like this one is that it directly responds to the needs communities identify as important to mitigating flood risk.

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