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Blue roof program winding down
By Rachel Leifer
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday it could shut down the blue roof program - which offers temporary repairs to roofs damaged by Hurricane Katrina - sometime this month.
Corps officials told Forrest County supervisors the program will end Nov. 30 at the latest.
Bill DeBruyn, the Corps' resident engineer for roofing in Hattiesburg, said later that FEMA guidelines allow the program to end seven days after the third straight day in which new applications statewide don't exceed 200.
"Get in touch," DeBruyn advised residents. "If they don't sign up, we don't know if they have damage."
Daily totals for new applications have already been shy of the 200 mark several times, DeBruyn said, with 91 requests on Monday. Requests were back to more than 200 a day by mid-week, he said.
But Eugene Brezany, a Federal Emergency Management Agency public affairs officer, said his agency has not set a date to end the program. He encouraged residents to enroll soon if they have any concerns about their roofs.
"Of course, none of our programs will be around forever," Brezany said.
FEMA funds the blue roof program as part of its disaster relief services. The program is offered in 20 counties affected by Katrina.
New applications for the program once totaled more than 1,600 a day statewide, Brezany said, but have diminished to a few hundred in recent weeks. The program has covered more than 43,000 roofs across the state so far, he said.
Wayne Forrest, liaison officer for the Army Corps of Engineers' Emergency Field Office in Hattiesburg, said at some point "you have to draw the program to a close."
Forrest County Supervisor Roderick Woullard of District 4, vice president of the board of supervisors, said dry weather over the last two months may have concealed leaks from residents who are in danger of missing out on aid.
"It's hard for our citizens to know (whether they might have roof damage) because we haven't had any rain," Woullard said. "If a good rain comes through with a little wind, they're going to find all those holes."
He said he first heard about the Nov. 30 deadline at Thursday's meeting.
