NORWICH – Director of Public Works Randy Gibbon and Emergency Management coordinator Matt Beckwith spoke to Chenango supervisors Monday about repairing the damage done by this year’s April and June floods.

According to Gibbon, county roads sustained around $2.5 million worth of damage in April and another $2.5 million in June. However, according to Gibbon, the county-wide costs of the storm are not enough to be a federally-declared statewide disaster. “Local municipalities will have to absorb that funding themselves,” he said.

Gibbon went on to explain there would be funds coming in for the April storm alone. Approximately 87.5 percent of the repair costs will be covered with 75 percent coming from the federal level and 12.5 percent from the state level. The other 12.5 percent will have to be covered by a local share.

“It doesn’t take much to wipe out a surplus,” said Gibbon. “We have the equipment and labor, but we don’t have the money to pay for the materials.”

In order to reduce the costs of the damage, proceedings have begun to abandon Red Mill Hill Road in Norwich, which was damaged in the April flood. Abandonment of this road and bridge would save the county nearly $1 million. There was also a movement made at the meeting to begin abandonment procedures for Morgan Hill Road in Afton, which was damaged in the June flood. The state estimated the repair cost of Morgan Hill Road to be around $650,000.