Hillsborough town leaders met Wednesday night to discuss how to pay for storm damage after Tropical Depression Chantal.

During the meeting, town leaders said they are switching from an emergency response to recovery mode, part of which they say is how to recover from the millions of dollars in storm damage.

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Storm-related repairs could cost more than $30 million, according to Orange County, including the work it will take to restore Hillsborough’s river pump station, which flooded during the storm, spilling 75% of the town's sewage into the Eno River.

In Hillsborough, public works is down 10 vehicles after flooding at the facility, which is roughly 66% of their full strength, which is what town leaders called the top priority.

"We allocated over $1 million tonight to cover public works vehicles and other costs. We are hoping to be reimbursed by FEMA, but we aren't sure yet," said Hillsborough Mayor Mark Bell.

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Months earlier, FEMA had awarded Hillsborough $5.81 million to move the pump station out of a flood hazard area, but in April the Trump administration cut the program, calling it “wasteful and ineffective.”

The move pulled the funding for Hillsborough and more than a dozen other North Carolina communities that were counting on the funding. Hillsborough town leaders said losing that money has set them back at least six to eight months.

Hillsborough leaders also said it is not lost on them what other people are going through as the recover from Chantal.

"What we are doing right now is helping connect residents and business to resources of help," Bell said.

To address the need, Orange County Emergency Services Director Kirby Saunders said the county is working to get funding from the state.

Saunders said Orange County doesn’t know how it will pay for the repairs and where its next funding will come from to pay for upgrades to mitigate future flooding risks.

"I think what is unknown a lot right now is [that] a lot of those actions are, by and large, dependent on outside sources of funds. Not many local governments have programs and the capabilities to fund, say, acquisition projects on their own, where we are acquiring flood-prone properties [and] residential structures. A lot of that is dependent on [and] reliant on state funding as well as FEMA funding to support those projects," Saunders said.

Town Manager Eric Peterson said Hillsborough had 10.5 inches of rain. He called it an unprecedented situation. Hillsborough leaders also said they lost about one-third of the Public Works equipment in the storm.

"It exceeded anything we've seen before," Peterson said.

Saunders told WRAL News the damage to public infrastructure will likely cost at least $10 million to repair. Damage to 63 residential structures is estimated to be in excess of $6 million. Saunders said the estimates are preliminary.

WRAL reporter Flynn Snyder and WRAL anchor/reporter Ashley Rowe contributed to this report.