According to Sean Lathrop, water division superintendent for Bay County, the project is entirely funded by grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Florida Department of Commerce.

Bay County officials are preparing to close the Deer Point Dam drawdown gates on March 5. Deer Point Lake’s normal elevation ...

And this has not happened in Bay County. It has happened before outside of our county, but not in Bay County,” said Sean Lathrop, the water division superintendent at Bay County Utilities.