PHOENIX (AP) - The Federal Highway Administration is providing $7 million in emergency relief funds to help cover the cost of repairing two Arizona highways damaged by flooding last summer.
State Department of Transportation officials say a long stretch of State Route 88 northeast of Apache Junction experienced structural erosion following an intense monsoon storm last July.
The highway remained open while ADOT made emergency repairs.
Now, much of that stretch is part of a previously planned safety-improvement project.
On Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona, runoff from areas scarred by a wildfire started in June and damaged the upper reaches of State Route 366, also known as Swift Trail.
Because of damage to the roadway and concerns about flash flooding from burned areas, the highest reaches of the highway remained closed until September.
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