A $412 million project to repair the Whittier Narrows Dam is about to become a reality. The second half of funding, $219.5 million is included in the $1.5 trillion packaged to fund the federal government in the current year approved by the House of Representatives. Assuming President Joe Biden signs the bill, the money will fund a project that has been under consideration for most of the past decade. It began in 2016 when the Army Corps of Engineers upgraded the dam’s flood risk from high urgency to very high urgency.