Howard’s approved budgets include $44.9M for Ellicott City tunnel

The Howard County Council has approved a $2.4 billion operating budget for fiscal 2025, along with a $413 million capital construction budget that earmarks $44.9 million for construction of the North Tunnel in Historic Ellicott City.

Following the devastating floods in 2011, 2016 and 2018 in Ellicott City, the county implemented the Ellicott City Safe and Sound Flood Mitigation Plan. The plan includes the construction of the North Tunnel, intended to collect stormwater at several locations...